Re: Dropping 686 non-pae kernel
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:34:51AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:23 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > There are some i686 processors without PAE support. This are some of the
> > Pentium M (all of the Banias line and some of the Dothan line) and the
> > Via C3 Nehemiah. All of them are released 2005 and earlier.
> Also Geode LX.
Ah, yes.
> Are there any changes we could/should make to the 486 flavour that would
> make it perform better on 686-class processors? Should we consider also
> dropping 486 support and making it a 586 flavour with corresponding
> optimisations?
The 486 flavour have only 8% of the usage of the 686 and steadily
dropping. Which CPU types would be affected?
> Rename 686-bigmem to 686. Keep the 686-bigmem metapackage as a dummy
> package depending on the 686 metapackage (for one release). When the
> 686 metapackage is upgraded on a system that doesn't support PAE,
> display a warning with debconf.
Okay.
Bastian
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