Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (109 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:10:32PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 
> > On Oct 12 2007 17:43, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > >
> > >We have the usability issue that Laptop users look strange if a
> > >"bigsmp" kernel gets installed (due to NX support requirements).
> > >
> > >So we would really like a neutral name here.
> > >We are open for other suggestions ;)
> > 
> > If you want to make bigsmp the default because of NX,
> > then just /make/ it the default (read: kernel-default.i586.rpm) already.
> > 
> > Renaming bigsmp to pae does not reduce the work Bernhard Walle
> > pointed out ["And no, maintaining 3 kernels is not an option for us."]
> > 
> > bigsmp, default, rt, xen, xenpae, uh, it's already 5 kernels :)
> > Maintaining an extra flavor (and I'm looking onto kernel-regular) does 
> > not take much time.
> 
> kernel-bigsmp   -> kernel-default
> kernel-default  -> kernel-nonpae
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

How about bigsmp -> default and there not being anymore "non pae"
kernel?  Becides the memory size hit, what kinds of problems would that
cause?  What machines still need the "nonpae" kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h
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