Am 12.03.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
No, you also need it on machines with 4 GiB of RAM and remapping
capability, in order to use the part of the RAM which is remapped
beyond the 4-GiB boundary due to the "PCI hole". Usually the remapped
memory amount is about 500 MB, but I have seen machines remapping 1
GiB or even 2 GiB, leaving only 2 or 3 GiB of usable RAM with a non
PAE kernel.
Note that the non PAE kernel in older Debian versions up to Jessie
lacked multi-processor (including multi-core and hyper-threading)
support.
Thx for the clarification.