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[神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) <rafaellaguna@xxxxxxxxx>]

But there're Lubuntu users on Pentium II and similar machines. In fact
they're happy an OS can handle those "trashy" computers and make them
useable.

Will this affect those users?



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2011/11/18 Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I forgot to forward this mail from ubuntu-devel, it may have an impact on
> Lubuntu since we shared the same kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:43:28 -0700
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise
> Pangolin
>
>
> Per discussion at UDS the kernel team is proposing to drop the non-PAE
> i386 flavour. The upgrade path for non-PAE users will be the PAE kernel.
> Those CPUs that do not have i686 and PAE support will be orphaned. To
> the best of my knowledge, these include Intel CPUs prior to Pentium II,
> 400Mhz Pentium M, VIA C3, and Geode LX. As far as I know, there are no
> laptop or desktop class CPUs being produced that do not meet these
> minimum requirements.
>
> Before I do something that is difficult to revert, I would like to hear
> from the development community why we should continue to maintain a
> kernel flavour that is (in my opinion) getting increasingly low
> utilization. It is my feeling that an extremely high percentage of users
> of the non-PAE kernel have a CPU that is PAE capable.
>
> If there is sufficient community demand (and support), I would be
> willing to sponsor the first non-PAE kernel upload to Universe.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/PreciseKernelConfigReview
>
> We'll be conducting a similar survey for powerpc.
>
> rtg
>
> P.S. For those of you that are totally confused by this email, PAE
> (Physical Address Extension) was an addition to 32 bit x86 CPUs that
> allowed them to address more then 4GB physical memory.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
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