Heads-up: Requiring PAE for running Xen

[Petr Vandrovec]

Steve Bonneville wrote:
> "Antonio Vargas" <windenntw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> Nope.  "Banias" and at least early "Dothan" Pentium M and Celeron M
> processors don't have working PAE.  I know some IBM ThinkPad T41

Are you sure that they do not have working PAE?  I believe they are just 
reporting that they do not have working PAE, but if you'll try to use it, it 
will work.

> laptops will fall into this problem.  I'm not sure if there are any
> AMD processors in the Athlon and later era that don't have PAE, but
> there may be. 

All (reasonable) AMD's processors have PAE.  But as Alan said, it might be 
problem for VIA's processors.
							Petr