automatic installation of PAE-enabled kernel?

[John Summerfield]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>
> 
> | If I'm not mistaken, some older via chipsets will result in kernel panic if
> | booting a PAE kernel, which is why PAE is not default.
> 
> I thought that "everything" mainstream supported PAE from the Pentium
> Pro on.  That turns out not to be the case.  Intel exception: the
> original Pentium M and variantsdid not.

I thought PAE came into being with Pentium IV (probably in the Xeons). 
Intel chipsets I saw for the P III didn't support more than 512 Mbytes.

> 
> AMD didn't support PAE until the Athlon (my AMD K6 has no PAE; my
> Athlon XP has PAE).

K6 is Pentium (pre Pentiun II). No surprise there.
> 
> VIA didn't support PAE until the C7.
> 


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John

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