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

 

On 20/11/2011 19:31, Yorvyk wrote:
> If a CPU can't support PAE it can't support more than 4GiB of RAM, so the PAE
> part of the kernel shoudn't come into play.

From what I understand, PAE has a different set of paging structures compared to
non-PAE. Does the kernel know to fall back onto non-PAE mode if it cannot enable
PAE on a CPU?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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