On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:49 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote:
>> It decided to install the PAE kernel instead the 486 (non-PAE). Why? As >> I hadn't installed a "linux-image-2.6-686-pae" previously I'd expected >> a non-PAE update, and given that "-686" was not available, "-486" >> seemed the most suitable selection. > > Because linux-image-686 now depends on linux-image-686-pae. So it's a hard/static requirement with no bizarre programming logic on behind? Ah... okay :-) > The kernel team made a decision to drop the standard bigmem and smp > kernels and just package the pae version with pae and smp support. This > is because modern 686 cpus all support pae. They feel that anyone not > using pae would find the 486 kernel more suitable. Yes, yes... I already knew about that decision. What I didn't knew is how the updater routine would handle it. >>> The old -686 kernels from squeeze and earlier do not support or need >>> PAE. >> >> Yes, and that's why I wonder why the update routine decided to go the >> PAE way :-) > > The installer is only doing this to satisfy the changed dependency of > linux-image-686. Understood. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.22.13.54...@gmail.com
