Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:49 +0100, Dom wrote:
> On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote:
>> It decided to install the PAE kernel instead the 486 (non-PAE). Why? As
>> I hadn't installed a "linux-image-2.6-686-pae" previously I'd expected
>> a non-PAE update, and given that "-686" was not available, "-486"
>> seemed the most suitable selection.
>
> Because linux-image-686 now depends on linux-image-686-pae.
So it's a hard/static requirement with no bizarre programming logic on
behind? Ah... okay :-)
> The kernel team made a decision to drop the standard bigmem and smp
> kernels and just package the pae version with pae and smp support. This
> is because modern 686 cpus all support pae. They feel that anyone not
> using pae would find the 486 kernel more suitable.
Yes, yes... I already knew about that decision. What I didn't knew is how
the updater routine would handle it.
>>> The old -686 kernels from squeeze and earlier do not support or need
>>> PAE.
>>
>> Yes, and that's why I wonder why the update routine decided to go the
>> PAE way :-)
>
> The installer is only doing this to satisfy the changed dependency of
> linux-image-686.
Understood.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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