Hi guys, In order to support running the installer in a Xen guest it is necessary to install a PAE (686-bigmem) kernel if the hypervisor is either PAE or 64 bit. It is possible to write a little utility which will query the hypervisor for this information but it seem like it would be easier to simply key off the mode the installer is running PAE or not.
There doesn't seem to be any precedent for inspecting $(uname -r) in base-installer/kernel so I would like some advice on what the most acceptable approach would be. Shall I define a new environment variable ${DI_FLAVOUR} passed to the base-installer/kernel scripts containing the kernel suffix (i.e. -486 vs -686-bigmem) or ... Since I'm in the area -- what do people think about installing a 686-bigmem kernel by default if pae is present in /proc/cpuinfo && memory size (from /proc/???) is >= 4GiB? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell It's Like This Even the samurai have teddy bears, and even the teddy bears get drunk.
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