Hi,
[email protected] wrote (15 Jan 2015 13:47:09 GMT) :
> Thanks for the link to the discussion.
NP :)
> As for 32-bit vs 64-bit, the issues of whether to ship PAE vs SMP are two
> separate
> independent issues.
In theory, yes.
In practice, no, as the only Debian x86 kernel that supports non-PAE
systems ("586" flavour) hasn't SMP support.
> The 4GB memory limitation (without PAE) was a bug issue with Windows OSes
> historically. No reason that any Linux derived OS (Tails) should be strapped
> with the
> same old limitation.
Linux kernels that support PAE can't boot on systems that lack PAE
support. We want to support such systems, at least for a little
while more.
> My Desktop is my only computer, i.e. I do not have a laptop. My plans for
> sometime
> this year is to procure a new laptop with the capability of both multi-core
> (4|8
> processors), 32 GB, and hardware support for VT-x, VT-i, and VT-d in order to
> take
> advantage of the hardware instruction set that supports VM. Then I should be
> able to
> do some research using Qubes and other VM approaches available.
Woohoo!
> If under that new laptop hardware, Tails were not to support PAE, that would
> be very
> sad indeed.
On recent x86_64 hardware, Tails boots on our 64-bit ("amd64" flavour)
kernel, so you'll be happy to learn that it's not an actual issue :)
> BTW, with regard to Bug #8485 - PAE support is not just for SMP multi-core
> processors. In other words, solution 2) is preferable to 1) and 3) both of
> which make
> no sense whatsoever.
I'm curious what's your take on it, given the additional info I'm
providing above, and what I wrote in note #3 on the #8485 ticket.
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
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