Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-21 Thread Christopher Brown
2009/1/20 Kyle McMartin k...@infradead.org: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Eric Paris wrote: I've got a P3 (Coppermine) with 256M memory running F10. My significant other took it with her to Antarctica (Well F9 has been to Antarctica but it'll be F10 in

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Christopher Brown wrote: May I point out that those that care enough to want PAE usually know how to go about getting it enabled whereas those that have install failure because they're running non-PAE hardware probably wont know how to go about getting it disabled. You mean, ordinary users

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:15:24AM +, Christopher Brown wrote: The original argument that many machines have 4GB of memory is simply false. Manufacturers aren't shipping anything more than 2GB on desktops at most unless you have oodles of money to throw at a Alienware box or something. Sure,

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:41:04AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Servers should use x86_64 anyway. But I strongly disagree about No they shouldn't. They should use PowerPC. Then this whole stupid argument wouldn't even matter. /me stops antagonizing people now. josh

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-21 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wednesday, January 21 2009, Kyle McMartin said: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:15:24AM +, Christopher Brown wrote: The fall-out from this going onto the livecd makes me shudder. Jesse explained this to me, To clarify: the anaconda installer is i586, and all 3 kernel flavours are

F10 EDAC Errors on intel based server

2009-01-21 Thread Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle
Hi, Just did a new install of Fedora 10 on an 8 core intel server (2 quad cores) and i got the following messages during first boot. They are continuosly being printed to the terminal just about every second. I originally had an install of Fedora 9 on this server and did not see any such

[PATCH] kernel: only build kernel-headers on ARM

2009-01-21 Thread Kedar Sovani
Since kernels for different ARM CPUs differ wildly, and since embedded folks tend to provide their own kernels, this patch makes the Fedora kernel package only build kernel-headers when built for ARM. Please consider for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek buyt...@marvell.com

Re: F10 EDAC Errors on intel based server

2009-01-21 Thread Oliver Falk
Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote: Hi, Just did a new install of Fedora 10 on an 8 core intel server (2 quad cores) and i got the following messages during first boot. They are continuosly being printed to the terminal just about every second. I originally had an install of Fedora 9 on this server