How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)
Chuck Ebbert
cebbert at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 00:03:40 UTC 2009
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:38:42 -0800 (PST)
Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> wrote:
> > If we have NX (which anything made in the last few years will)
> > it's a performance win to use the hardware NX instead of the
> > segment limit hack we implemented in execshield.
>
> It's more than performance. The segment limit hack is a hack, and does not
> actually do full enforcement in all cases (though we have already bent over
> backward to ensure that these cases do not come up by default).
> Hardware NX is 100% reliable.
>
We also need to look for lm to see if we can install a 64-bit kernel.
So something like:
if (lm)
install 64-bit
else
if (!pae) || (!nx && memory < 4GB)
install i586
else
install PAE
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