Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (549 mails)

[Dean Hilkewich <deans.mail.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/11/11 1:31 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Jeff Mahoney<jeffm@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > What do you mean here WRT "not sure why the PAE is even offered" ?
> >      
> Because PAE is irrellavent in 64bit long mode.  PAE only provides
> pointers for 36bit memory addressing.  x64 chips have 40+ bit memory
> addressing and 64bit pointers and registers.
>
> So, why is there a seperate PAE kernel when it's not needed?
>    
AFIK, there is no 64-bit kernel offering with PAE.  The only PAE kernel 
offered is on 32-bit.

Dean

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