Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 17:31:12 UTC 2009
Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:26AM -0500, 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
>>>
> Unless we keep the non-PAE i586 kernel around as a fallback, we're not
> going to be able to boot on a whole raft of crappy i386 chips (original
> Pentium M most notably...)
I'm not suggesting dropping non-PAE. Simply defaulting to PAE where
possible.
Are Pentium Ms (really the memory that comes with them) actually capable
of running recent Fedoras? I'm talking desktop, not
I'm-using-my-laptop-as-a-firewall-just-because-I-can.
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