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Comment 34 for bug 897786

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

floid (jkanowitz) wrote:

> Does this go for Banias as well as Dothan Pentium Ms?

I have Dothan, it does not advertise PAE in cpuflags, but PAE kernel works.

> the NX support that this is supposed to really be about came in with Dothan (which I assume will report under cpuflags in all circumstances?).

No, my Dothan Pentium M (Family 6 model 13 with 400mhz bus) does not have PAE or NX in cpuflags.

NX is supported via kernel patch (see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-November/034502.html Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise Pangolin - "This is about dropping non-PAE support, not dropping non-NX support. The NX emulation patch must remain in the kernel since a large number of systems have PAE but not NX.")

> (Does Fedora do something more sane here?)

Fedora supports i686 kernels without PAE. The installer chooses to install a PAE kernel (or not) based on CPU and memory config - PAE capable systems with <4GB will get non-PAE kernel, as it is slightly faster and all memory is usable.