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Ian Pilcher
i.pilcher at comcast.net
Wed Jul 6 17:43:24 UTC 2005
Dave Jones wrote:
>
> One change that might happen though -- there are newer CPUs that
> have (or will have soon) NX capability, but aren't SMP.
> (VIA have a chip ready, Intel are alleged to be putting NX in their
> next line of laptop processors, probably AMD too).
>
> To take advantage of NX, you need PAE enabled, which means these
> kernels will need to run 686-smp even though they aren't smp.
> I'll probably be doing some lobbying in Jeremy's cube for an
> installer change on this hardware when I get some to test with.
>
To avoid confusion, perhaps a name change is in order?
kernel --> kernel-compat
and later
kernel-smp --> kernel
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