On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:18:44AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > I propose the following: > > > - Rename 686-bigmem to 686-pae. pae is more than support for much > > > memory, it includes things like NX.
> > nack > > as already told on private channel to many pentium m out there are > > don't support pae > OTOH, there's little reason to ship a 486 *and* a 686 kernel, probably > easiest to just drop the 686 and rename 486 to generic or something. Is that based on benchmarks, or on an assessment that non-PAE 686 machines are uninteresting? I would think that if the performance benefit of 686 over 486 is measurable at all, it's precisely the older systems that benefit most from having a separate kernel flavor, in terms of the hardware remaining useful. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
