Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 16:03:37 UTC 2009


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

	Dave

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