Michael Vogt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 02:05:35PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: >> The next upload will be an ABI bump to 2.6.30-10.11 >> >> Pursuant to the Karmic flavours Blueprint >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-flavours >> I've implemented the flavour changes. >> >> However, I have some questions about upgrading as well as CPU feature >> detection. >> >> 1) Is the installer intelligent enough to detect the relevant CPU >> features necessary to support PAE, and therefore install the correct >> kernel version ? (Or at least complain that PAE is not supported). >> >> 2) Similarly for the upgrade manager, can it detect that the legacy >> flavour should be installed instead of upgrading the existing generic >> flavour? > > Its easy to add code to the release upgrader to select a kernel based > on /proc/cpuinfo - update-manger already does some kernel selection, > but its pretty limited scope right now (basicly just checking if a SMP > system runs -386 and transition them in this case). > > I looked at the spec and its unclear to me we keep the linux-image-386 > flavour or if that is removed in favour of -legacy? >
As requested by cjwatson the i386 flavour names are generic and generic-pae. -server has been removed in Karmic, so the upgrade paths should be: Jaunty server --> Karmic generic-pae Jaunty generic --> Karmic generic As soon as the ports flavours are integrated, their upgrade paths should be the obvious choices. Jaunty 386 --> Karmic 386, etc rtg -- Tim Gardner [email protected] -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer
