Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 16:23:26 UTC 2009


Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
> 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

anaconda-devel-list, actually. But I could have sworn we already did this.

Bill




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