Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 17:07:26 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
>   
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:49:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>  > This probably comes up once in a while, thought I'd raise it again.
>>  > 
>>  > I'd like to suggest switching the default kernel to -PAE on machines 
>>  > that support it, for the following reasons:
>>  > 
>>  > - many machines have 4GB+ these days, even desktops
>>  > - NX is only available with -PAE, improves security
>>  > - kvm is significantly faster on AMD when PAE is selected (since we 
>>  > don't support NPT on non-PAE)
>>
>> What's needed to set this by default is changes in anaconda.
>> They have their own list at anaconda-list at redhat.com
>>     
>
> anaconda-devel-list, actually. But I could have sworn we already did this.
>   

Just tested; F10 i386 still installs a non-PAE kernel.

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