arch fun.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:44:28PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
 
 > > ?? We haven't shipped a UP x86 kernel in about 3 years.
 > 
 > Er...smp alternatives counts to me as UP. Shame there's no equiv. for
 > PAE.

oh I see what you were saying. you meant the non-pae kernel. gotcha.

 > >  > If PAE were default installed in F11
 > >  > for everyone and it were publicly announced that support for non-PAE was
 > >  > dying in F12
 > > 
 > > Part of the problem with that idea is that the Pentium M laptops without PAE
 > > aren't that old. This might upset quite a few people.
 > 
 > If "kernel" must die, isn't there some way to make the i586 kernel
 > replace it?

That's what we've done. And I'm told yum handles the transition automatically.

	Dave

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