On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 19:15 +0000, Dom wrote: > I think the pae bit will only be used by CPUs that support it, otherwise > it will be ignored and run normally. Only some "really old" CPUs (like > some others I do run) won't be supported. > > My laptop shows: > > dom@oz:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 9 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz > stepping : 5 > microcode : 0x7 > cpu MHz : 600.000 > cache size : 1024 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 2 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush > dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2 > bogomips : 1196.90 > clflush size : 64 > cache_alignment : 64 > address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
The '36 bits physical' seems to indicate that your Pentium M _does_ have PAE, and if Wikipedia is to be believed [1] a lot of the the later Pentium Ms did. One of my old Laptops has a Pentium M 730 [1] which confusingly has PAE but only 32-bit physical address size. [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/27586 -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361713037.4170.18.ca...@computer5.home
