It would be useful to me, personally, because I have a VM where I installed sabayon x86 which was created with 1GB but that has currently 4GB.
However, after I thought a bit about PAE, my opinion is that we should basically answer to the following question: "Do we prefer to have no support for those who have a PAE-less CPU, or to have limited support for those who have a 64bit-less CPU and more than 4GB of RAM"? The answer is not so trivial: I think that it is easier to find someone with a Pentium-M than somebody else with a first-gen P4 with 3.2+GB RAM. Moreover, the x86 version without PAE would work for both. Probably the switch would be negative for most people. On the other hand, I might be not the only one who got an upgrade on a virtual machine and now has more memory than the quantity the kernel can deal with... 2012/5/14 Mitch Harder <mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org>: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM, wolfden <wolf...@sabayon.org> wrote: >> meh, it's x86, do whatever to it. Majority are on x86_64 >> >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@sabayon.org> wrote: >>> >>> ahah, >>> back in topic, I see more "yes" than "no", good! >>> Not planning to make two different kernels, one for PAE and one for >>> non-PAE I mean, unless it becomes strictly necessary. >>> I don't think this is going to happen. >>> > > Probably the only affected users will be those that have a > first-generation Pentium-M. > > After that, I think you have to go back to sub 300-MHz processors to > find a vintage that doesn't support. > -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
