On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:23 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I'd like to drop the i686 non-pae kernel. Currently we have sometimes > -686 with PAE; only the normal kernel is without PAE. I'd like to get > rid of this problem. Also this enables the use of the NX bit if supported > by the CPU. > > 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. 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? > There are several possibilities to do this: > * Change name of meta-package: > - Breaks nothing > - Needs manual intervention by anyone using it > * Don't change the name: > - Breaks some systems > - No manual intervention by the rest 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. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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