Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 09:56:44 UTC 2009
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> 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?
Well, we can switch the default for F11, then watch the smolt statistics
to figure ;)
cheers,
Gerd
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