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Re: Fw: Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise Pangolin

 

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:10:12 -0800
"Jonathan Marsden" <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> *If* this proposed change makes it impractical to run on a Pentium II,
> we need to stand up and be counted.  If (as I suspect) it only prevents
> use on Pentium I, really old AMD, VIA C3 and Geode, then ... that's a
> much smaller population of still-working computers, and I suggest we
> let it slide.
It's the point. Even the kernel team was not able to determine the range of hardware affected. If we can confirm that it's only this CPU (which, I think, was already dropped for 10.10), no need to fight.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

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Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>


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