Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #310996, revision 5 Title: Non-PAE versions of kernels - Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed + Package Wishlist: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Corey Mwamba (epicurious) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In openSUSE 11.0, when kernels were packaged, the developers used a - pae flag to show that the kernel had PAE enabled, so if I wanted a realtime kernel I could choose between kernel-rt and kernel-rtpae. Now (from 11.2 up) it seems that all the kernels have PAE enabled, except kernel-default; and they are not marked as such, so kernel-rt STILL has PAE enabled. Although PAE is great for newer hardware, some chipsets are not compatible, which leads to a system not being able to boot. A user with an old computer would not be able to use the distribution. So this is really a plea to kernel developers and packagers to build non-PAE versions of the kernels; and to use the appropriate suffixes when naming them. Discussion: #1: Corey Mwamba (epicurious) (2010-12-20 08:27:49) I had previously put this in Distribution - apologies. + #2: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2011-08-30 20:31:46) (reply to #1) + kernel-default does not have PAE enabled and will be the only kernel to + have it. I consider this done. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310996