Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de> writes:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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).
well, the question is did people complain because of the name "bigsmp" or have there been real "functional" problems ? - drivers not available for bigsmp/pae
That were the first complains - and we fixed all of these.
- software not working with it (AFAIR vmware has been fixed)
There were some reports that were rather obscure but I'm not aware of it.
- functionality not working: suspend as most important feature
This has been fixed for 10.3.
Note, I'm not saying any of these don't work, I'm rather asking if they all do ?
And wasn't there the story that bigsmp also uses a different memory layout (kernel/userspace split). Are there any drawbacks to that setup ?
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