Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.1.6-1.2 (cooker only)

Alexander Kazancev <[email protected]> writes:

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>
> Is kernel-generic has some features and improverments, like you
> kernel-desktop and what reason using PAE and HIGHMEM64G for 32-bit
> kernel?

Because kernel-desktop targets modern HW, not 10 year old ones. So
people using a kernel desktop on contemporary 32-bits machines (the very
common case) can use more than 4Go and the no-exec bit.

>
> Now we have a ugly situation on 2011, like user install initial
> mandriva ISO with 2.6.38 kernel (it's no PAE in desktop version) and

Hmm... I thought that old desktop kernel was targeting the i686
micro-architecture with PAE enabled but that was mistake. For some
reasons it has been decided to not use PAE even if the i686 has the
support...

Well, even if it's not nice, if the number of users is very low (and I
suspect it is) then we could simply ask them to use install the
kernel-generic package manually ?

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		Franck