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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No, we have to rely on kernel in the repositories.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:43:45 +0300
Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes it will affect Pentium II. Do we have options of compiling the
> kernel within lubuntu to continue support.
> 
> 2011/11/18 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >   <http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/>  <http://www.lubuntu.net/>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> >>
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> >> Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
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