On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 at 13:30:54 +0200, Jelle de Jong wrote: > When will there be a non pea 3.x kernel like with the 2.6 kernel > available in Debian?
>From the kernel changelog: * [i386] Rename '686-bigmem' flavour to '686-pae'; remove '686' flavour. For 686-class systems without PAE, the '486' flavour is more efficient than the '686' flavour due to optimisation for uniprocessor systems. So you should use the -486 flavour on non-PAE hardware. Larger numbers aren't necessarily better :-) Perhaps the linux-image-686 transitional package should depend on linux-image-486 (the conservative/safe/lowest-common-denominator choice). On the other hand, linux-image-686-pae (the former "bigmem" version) is more appropriate for most mainstream CPUs (although not for unusual CPUs like your Geode), which is presumably the reason why automatic migration from -686 is to that one. The kernel team's advice on the appropriate new kernel for various CPUs should probably go in the wheezy release notes, particularly if cases like this exist. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org