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Bug#643012: PAE Kernel doesn't work with Pentium M



On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:16 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Of course the strange bit is that it says it has 36bit physical
> address with 32bit virtual address, which would require a PAE capable
> CPU. 

36bit physical addressing here probably refers to PSE36[0], which was a
different, pre-PAE, mechanism for using large physical addresses. I
believe that there were indeed processors which had PSE but not PAE.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSE-36

Ian.
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Ian Campbell


BOFH excuse #125:

we just switched to Sprint.

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