Bug#424759: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686: Please build both PAE and non-PAE kernels for Xen
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:20:26AM +0400, Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
> Using PAE kernels and hypervisor is required for big virtualizing servers.
> But non-PAE kernels are also required by developers, students and other
> people who use Xen on their desktop boxes to do OS research, multiplatform
> development and so on. Providing only PAE kernel disables the ability to
> run at least NetBSD and OpenSolaris, may be some other OSes too.
> Please, build also the non-PAE kernels in the future.
IMHO this bug should be wontfixed. We already provide binary kernel images
for an excessive number of flavors; it's unrealistic to think that we would
be able to provide prepackaged images for all possible use cases, the
important thing is to provide images that are usable on all target
/hardware/, and if a user needs more specific options afterwards that's why
we have linux-tree and linux-source packages.
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