Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:36:36AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/05/22 14:09 (GMT+0200) Stephan Kulow apparently typed:
>
> > Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb Felix Miata:
>
> > > On 2008/05/22 15:29 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin apparently typed:
>
> > > > I don't know why
> > > > suddenly 11B3 decided that I need the "-pae" kernel rather than the
> > > > usual "-default" as in past SuSEs/openSUSEs.)
>
> > > Basil, I don't know why either, but I did 3 11.0b3 installs in recent days,
> > > and all of them got the pae instead, even though all were 32 bit installs
> > > and had 1G or less of installed RAM. At least I was able to boot those pae
>
> > Yeah, we're thinking about renaming kernel-default to 
> > kernel-usually-works-on-most-hardware and kernel-pae to 
> > kernel-the-one-you-really-want to avoid this confusion in the future.
>
> I don't get it. Why is kernel-the-one-you-really-want wanted on systems with
> 1G or less of installed RAM? What besides ability to address non-existent RAM
> > 4G is different about pae kernels?

It allows using "NX" bit (if the processor supports it), for hardware
level page execute protection.

Ciao, Marcus
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