On Oct 12 2007 17:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jeff, could you rename also kernel-bigsmp to "kernel-pae", please?
It is not just a PAEd kernel, but also allows for a higher number of CPUs. That is the "big" in bigsmp.
I do know exactly this. We want to install this kernel by default on i386 since it allows us to use non-executable stack etc (a PAE feature).
Does PAE incur a performance hit, even if the total amount of memory is less than 4GB? By default? By default I get default, not bigsmp (or pae, FWIW).
We tried with 10.3 but many user complained why their 1GB machine got a bigsmp kernel.
And therefore my suggestion to change it,
So the name change is because they complained they got a bigsmp? (That's how I read it.) I'd say they complained because they got a bigsmp/pae in the first place (but you may prove me wrong with a BZ entry). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org