Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (109 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I don't know the exact models, but there were enough bug reports
indicating that the bigsmp kernel didn't boot on various machines. There
are definitely machines out there.

I'm all for renaming kernel-bigsmp to kernel-default.

kernel-nonpae works, or kernel-legacy would too. We might even want to
investigate backing down the CPU optimizations on that kernel to be
baseline i586 if we call it that.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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