Jakub's Recommendations for ia32 Support

[Robert Scheck]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 03 February 2009 at 18:11, Warren Togami wrote:
> > In related news, cebbert wants to do the following to the F-11 kernel:
> > - Eliminate the current i686 kernel.
> > - i686 hardware would get i686 PAE by default.
> 
> Not all i686 hardware is PAE capable.
> 
> > - i586 kernel becomes i686, except without cmov.  This is primarily so
> > people don't complain when they realize they have the "i586" kernel.
> 
> And this will be installed on anything that's not PAE capable?

Did I get this correct? We will ship "i686 without cmov" and "i686 PAE"?

 - i586 -> i686 (without cmov)
 - i686 -> i686 PAE?

I know, there was some ongoing discussion regarding cmov, sse/sse2. My main
point referrs to how "i686 non-PAE capable hardware" will be handled.


Greetings,
  Robert