Hello Tim, The only reason I see for keeping support of weird old CPUs is for people who have an old computer and they would like to linux-ize it. I'm not sure if the "old" of today are computers running with powerpc or non-PAE CPUs, so my original claim might be void.
I think these kind of computers will probably won't be installed with Ubuntu at all, but X/Lubuntu might be a choice for them. As I understand the kernel of Ubuntu is shared between the 'sister-releases', am I right? Thanks, Amir On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Tim Gardner <[email protected]>wrote: > Per discussion at UDS the kernel team is proposing to drop the non-PAE > i386 flavour. The upgrade path for non-PAE users will be the PAE kernel. > Those CPUs that do not have i686 and PAE support will be orphaned. To the > best of my knowledge, these include Intel CPUs prior to Pentium II, 400Mhz > Pentium M, VIA C3, and Geode LX. As far as I know, there are no laptop or > desktop class CPUs being produced that do not meet these minimum > requirements. > > Before I do something that is difficult to revert, I would like to hear > from the development community why we should continue to maintain a kernel > flavour that is (in my opinion) getting increasingly low utilization. It is > my feeling that an extremely high percentage of users of the non-PAE kernel > have a CPU that is PAE capable. > > If there is sufficient community demand (and support), I would be willing > to sponsor the first non-PAE kernel upload to Universe. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**KernelTeam/Specs/**PreciseKernelConfigReview<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/PreciseKernelConfigReview> > > We'll be conducting a similar survey for powerpc. > > rtg > > P.S. For those of you that are totally confused by this email, PAE > (Physical Address Extension) was an addition to 32 bit x86 CPUs that > allowed them to address more then 4GB physical memory. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Physical_Address_Extension<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension> > -- > Tim Gardner [email protected] > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel> >
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