On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:41 +0000, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 12:12 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 05.12.2010, at 17:25, Blue Swirl wrote: > >> > >> > 'info tlb' didn't show correct information for PAE mode and > >> > x86_64 long mode. > >> > > >> > Implement the missing modes. Also print NX bit for PAE and long modes. > >> > Fix off-by-one error in 32 bit mode mask. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> > >> > --- > >> > > >> > I didn't find an OS that enabled PAE, please test and report. > >> > >> Xen does. Just take a random recent xen kernel and run it with -kernel :). > > > > In addition AFAIK recent 32 bit Fedora is PAE enabled by default (so is > > RHEL6?). Debian also supplies a -686-bigmem kernel flavour which is > > their name for PAE enabled. > > At least Fedora 14 installation CD kernel does not enable PAE with 5G > of memory (enabled for i386 by adjusting target_phys_bits in > configure).
Hm, seems like I was mistaken and it was just RHEL6 which changed the default. FWIW Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso contains /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE and initrd-PAE.img which might be useful to you, see also http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ . Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Sabbat - Behind The Crooked Cross (Live) Lighten up, while you still can, Don't even try to understand, Just find a place to make your stand, And take it easy. -- The Eagles, "Take It Easy"