Re: Switch to PAE installer kernel/initrd by default on i386?
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:58 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The CD team recently switched to including the 686-pae kernel flavour on
> wheezy CD1 by default. I was wondering if maybe it would also be
> possible to switch to the 686-pae flavour of the installer itself by
> default? (currently this flavour is somewhat branded the "xen" flavour).
>
> I'm not suggesting we drop the 486 flavour, as it is still required for
> a minority of processors which don't support 686, so it would still need
> to remain available on one of the other CDs and in a netboot flavour
> etc.
>
> Doing this would make things much easier for people wanting to install
> inside a Xen PV domU domain, who currently have to ensure that they use
> one of the multi-arch CDs (which many users inevitably fail to realise).
> I think it would also enable Xen HVM domU's to use PV drivers (so-called
> PVHVM) out of the box which would be pretty cool. Other than the loss of
> support for pre-686 processors in the default images I'm not aware of
> any other up/downsides to native users (I guess things like NX and >4G
> RAM support are not so critical for the installer itself).
Does anyone have an opinion on this or shall I knock up some patches to
switch *-xen to just * and existing * to *-{legacy,486,something}?
Naming suggestions are welcome, -legacy seems a bit disdainful and -486
seems like leaking an implementation detail.
Ian.
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