On 02/26/2014 08:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > >> The basic findings of the bug discussion is that people are successfully >> running PAE kernels on Pentium M (for some unknown reason Grub skips the >> validate_cpu code in the kernel, so existing PAE kernels will run >> unmodified, although they do fail when booted with syslinux), and people >> are using a user-space hack to add "pae" to /proc/cpuinfo. > > grub is jumping to the 32-bit entry point and skipping the entire real > mode setup code. Bad grub. >
Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way. There are much worse problems with that. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/