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 - software not working with it (AFAIR vmware has been fixed) - functionality not working: suspend as most important feature 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 ? -- with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen), Ruediger Oertel (ro@novell.com,ro@suse.de,bugfinder@t-online.de) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Fatou 2.6.22.9-0.4-default #1 SMP 2007/10/05 21:32:04 UTC x86_64 Key fingerprint = 17DC 6553 86A7 384B 53C5 CA5C 3CE4 F2E7 23F2 B417 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)