[Fedora-xen] Re: Heads-up: Requiring PAE for running Xen

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu May 18 01:48:51 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote:

 > >2) Switch the 32-bit xen kernels to require PAE.  For most "current"
 > >non-laptop hardware, this is a non-issue.  It does mean that xen won't
 > >work a lot of earlier PentiumM laptops
 > 
 > xen always needed p6 hardware (didnt run on k6-II for example),
 > and AFAIK p6 supports PAE always, so not any lose here i think

Sadly, not the case..
Celerons, and some Pentium-M's (as Jeremy noted above) are
P6 class, yet lack PAE.

		Dave

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