On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
PAE is not *only* for => 4 GM memory.
I left the following before i realized the bug was closed: Problem is that ALL Intel chips from the Pentium Pro to now(excluding the 400Mhz FSB Pentium M chips evidently) have PAE in them. It is up to the motherboard chipset whether to make use of this tho. ie, a 440BX would not use it, but a 440GX could use it. Only the x86-64 chips have the ability to use the NX bit since it uses the 63rd bit, so why would you even make use of it on a 32bit chip? If YaST is just looking for PAE to enable something like NX/XD, then that's silly. I believe that Svetoslav was refering to older machines like my Thinkpad with the P3/500. While the chip may support PAE: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up and the corresponding pse36, PAE is dependant upon the northbridge supporting. Bottom line, is this something that will slow down a non PAE usable system? Is the code able to be removed, like the SMP alternatives are removed saving 18k on my system? Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org