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[Ian Pilcher]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> One change that might happen though -- there are newer CPUs that
> have (or will have soon) NX capability, but aren't SMP.
> (VIA have a chip ready, Intel are alleged to be putting NX in their
>  next line of laptop processors, probably AMD too).
> 
> To take advantage of NX, you need PAE enabled, which means these
> kernels will need to run 686-smp even though they aren't smp.
> I'll probably be doing some lobbying in Jeremy's cube for an
> installer change on this hardware when I get some to test with.
> 

To avoid confusion, perhaps a name change is in order?

   kernel --> kernel-compat

and later

   kernel-smp --> kernel

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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