Re: [PATCHES] 686-bigmem/Xen enabled netboot images
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
>> What about retasking the new virtio udebs into virtuali{s,z}ion (or
>> just virt) and adding them there?
>
> That could work, but I suspect it could result in a dependency mess. You
> can either check /lib/modules/<ver>/modules.dep to see how bad it is or
> just try it. If these modules do not depend on anything much then this
> could be a good option.
IIRC they don't depend on anything else. Ian can you give it a try?
>> Other distros (and *bsd etc) would tend to call it either xen or
>> xenpae, I think, rather than bigmem (which is something of a Debianism)
>> -- what do you think of those names?
>
> I don't have any problem with either of those. As mentioned before, IMO
> that the fact it uses the -bigmem kernel is only incidental to its
> purpose. Main thing is to be clear to users.
>
> Hmm. You may also want to do a quick check of the manifest texts in the
> installer config from that perspective.
I think xenpae is more appropriate since this does use the pae mode.
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