On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 03:27:04AM -0500, Mouse wrote: > >> [...] i386 PAE is inferior to amd64 [...] > > > The idea of i386 PAE if that if an i386 lacks some RAM, you can just > > drop a PAE kernel and add memory. > > > Moving the system to amd64 is a bit more work. > > How well do "amd64-capable" and "PAE-capable" correlate? I already > know, for exmaple, that way more than half my x86 machines are not the > former. (Admittedly, most of that "more than half" are incapable, for > other reasons, of taking enough RAM to have any use for PAE.)
All amd64 systems are PAE-capable. PAE is a bit older, I'm not sure when it started exactly. At last some non-64bit Xeons have PAE, maybe the pentium pro (i686) had it too. It's possible that some newer, low power i386-only processors don't have PAE. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --