Yes it will affect Pentium II. Do we have options of compiling the kernel within lubuntu to continue support.
2011/11/18 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) <[email protected]> > But there're Lubuntu users on Pentium II and similar machines. In fact > they're happy an OS can handle those "trashy" computers and make them > useable. > > Will this affect those users? > > > > <http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/> <http://www.lubuntu.net/> > > > > 2011/11/18 Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> > >> I forgot to forward this mail from ubuntu-devel, it may have an impact on >> Lubuntu since we shared the same kernel. >> >> Regards, >> Julien Lavergne >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:43:28 -0700 >> From: Tim Gardner <[email protected]> >> To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <[email protected]>, >> [email protected] >> Subject: Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise >> Pangolin >> >> >> Per discussion at UDS the kernel team is proposing to drop the non-PAE >> i386 flavour. The upgrade path for non-PAE users will be the PAE kernel. >> Those CPUs that do not have i686 and PAE support will be orphaned. To >> the best of my knowledge, these include Intel CPUs prior to Pentium II, >> 400Mhz Pentium M, VIA C3, and Geode LX. As far as I know, there are no >> laptop or desktop class CPUs being produced that do not meet these >> minimum requirements. >> >> Before I do something that is difficult to revert, I would like to hear >> from the development community why we should continue to maintain a >> kernel flavour that is (in my opinion) getting increasingly low >> utilization. It is my feeling that an extremely high percentage of users >> of the non-PAE kernel have a CPU that is PAE capable. >> >> If there is sufficient community demand (and support), I would be >> willing to sponsor the first non-PAE kernel upload to Universe. >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/PreciseKernelConfigReview >> >> We'll be conducting a similar survey for powerpc. >> >> rtg >> >> P.S. For those of you that are totally confused by this email, PAE >> (Physical Address Extension) was an addition to 32 bit x86 CPUs that >> allowed them to address more then 4GB physical memory. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension >> -- >> Tim Gardner [email protected] >> >> -- >> ubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >> >> >> -- >> Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- God Bless
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