Hi, for various reasons (supporting big amounts of RAM, supporting >1 CPU core, NX bit), we want to ship a 686-pae kernel in addition to the current (486, non-SMP) one we already have, and make the bootloader autodetect the most appropriate kernel depending on what the CPU supports.
Work towards this started a while ago, but tremendous progress was made these last days, thanks to a proof-of-concept by Ague that allowed me to jump over one of the remaining blockers and bring the feature into a state that I think is worth testing. So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental. Quoting https://tails.boum.org/todo/nx_bit/ the next steps are: 1. heavily test on bare metal, especially to see if "liveusb-creator crashes on amd64 kernel" affects systems running the 686-pae kernel 2. see if kexec'ing a -686-pae kernel (on hardware that supports it) fixes "sdmem does not clear all memory" Happy testing! Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
