Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:15:37 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote: > > Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> We can also simply do this: > >> > >> - Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE. > >> > >> i.e. make PAE the default kernel. > > > > Yes, I really think we

Re: Module request: IB700_WDT (IB700 watchdog timer)

2009-02-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:56:05PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > Yeah, no builds have been done today yet. > It'll be in the next one that goes out. Thanks! Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogsp

Re: Module request: IB700_WDT (IB700 watchdog timer)

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:53:08PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:13:22PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > > I assume this is the right place to request drivers for the Fedora > > > ker

Re: Module request: IB700_WDT (IB700 watchdog timer)

2009-02-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:13:22PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > I assume this is the right place to request drivers for the Fedora > > kernel? > > > > I'd like to request that the in-tree IB700 watchdog driver be enabl

Re: Module request: IB700_WDT (IB700 watchdog timer)

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:13:22PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I assume this is the right place to request drivers for the Fedora > kernel? > > I'd like to request that the in-tree IB700 watchdog driver be enabled. > The config option is IB700_WDT. looks like it already is ? $ gr

Module request: IB700_WDT (IB700 watchdog timer)

2009-02-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I assume this is the right place to request drivers for the Fedora kernel? I'd like to request that the in-tree IB700 watchdog driver be enabled. The config option is IB700_WDT. My reading of the code is that it won't break anything unless users explicitly load the new module: http://lxr.linux.

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Lalancette
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote: >> Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> We can also simply do this: >>> >>> - Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE. >>> >>> i.e. make PAE the default kernel. >> Yes, I really think we should just do this. It's simple, it means we g

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: We can also simply do this: - Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE. i.e. make PAE the default kernel. Yes, I really think we should just do this. It's simple, it means we get the logic right for Xen as well as bare-met

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Lalancette
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > We can also simply do this: > > - Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE. > > i.e. make PAE the default kernel. Yes, I really think we should just do this. It's simple, it means we get the logic right for Xen as well as bare-metal (without any special cases), and the

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Will Woods wrote: > (PAE_flag and >=4GB RAM) or (PAE_flag and vmx_flag and >=1GB RAM) > > where vmx_flag is the flag for hardware virt stuff. Is this a good test? No. > Some further questions: > - Is a PAE kernel required for proper virt support? Xen stopped supporting non-PAE (paravirt) guest