Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Jeremy Katz wrote: On Monday, January 19 2009, Avi Kivity said: Jeremy Katz wrote: That said, we currently do install the PAE kernel if you have 4 GB+ of RAM[1]. Switching to it by default is problematic because then we're back to using different kernels for different cases

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
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 Antarctica next month). You can only run one app at a time and have to be patient, but it's perfectly usable (and

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 01:06:17 am 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 Antarctica next month). You can only run one app at a

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
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 Antarctica next month). You can only run one app at a

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Avi Kivity wrote: Kyle McMartin wrote: Unless we keep the non-PAE i586 kernel around as a fallback, we're not going to be able to boot on a whole raft of crappy i386 chips (original Pentium M most notably...) I'm not suggesting dropping non-PAE. Simply defaulting to PAE where possible.

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Kyle McMartin wrote: Look, I'm sorry if I'm just not thinking big picture enough here, but what exactly is the use case for a PAE kernel these days? The compat code in x86_64 should be more than good enough for the apps that require an i686 chroot. It's certainly very good. I converted my

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 07:28:10PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Users won't be running yum. They're running that applet thing. Which just shells out to yum... ;-) ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com

Re: Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

2009-01-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Kyle McMartin wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 07:28:10PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Users won't be running yum. They're running that applet thing. Which just shells out to yum... ;-) Great, but any 'suggestions' need to find their way to the user. I'd prefer to do the right thing