On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, 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?
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