Re: 6.2 with PAE ?

To: Phil Lewis <pwl42@yahoo.com>
Cc: debian-knoppix@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 6.2 with PAE ?
From: Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:44:10 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:04:00PM -0800, Phil Lewis wrote:
> I hope the kernel in 6.2 will have physical address extension enabled. If not, half my memory will go unused :(

Sorry, no, unfortunately you will need to build your own Kernel for
this. With PAE enabled, Knoppix would no longer run on old (well, not
even too old) computers with non-PAE capable CPUs. I have checked
frequently on this in the past time.

Therefore I still keep the non-PAE default for a while in order to
support the widest possible range of CPUs with a single kernel.

You can find the kernel sources at
http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org/packages/linux-source-2.6.31.6_2.6.31.6-10.00.Custom_all.deb
http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org/sources/cloop_2.631-1.tar.gz

When rebuilding the kernel, please make sure that you select a CPU newer
than 586, and then you can select the PAE memory model.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper

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