Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Tixy wrote:
> Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all.
> I was confused because it only has 32-bit physical address size (and so
> doesn't benefit from any 'Extension' to the physical address).
The Pentium-M does indeed have PAE, and they even have PAT support as well.
Unfortunately, PAT support on the Pentium-M is blacklisted, pending someone
going over all the related errata, and actually checking whether all
Pentium-M have PAT-related errata or not (bad page type aliasing between PAT
and MTRR MSRs is a no-no for Linux).
But it will run PAE kernels just fine.
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