From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PAE/NX without performance drain?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:40:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165779603.27217.231.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457C28F8.4050409@comcast.net>
>
> Too bad PAE can't be detected at boot time; someone else mentioned that
> some recent Pentium M laptops (and anything older than PPro) don't boot
> if PAE is on.
even Windows has 2 kernel binaries for this case btw, it's really really
really hard.
> I want my hardware NX bit working in Ubuntu without having to recompile
> my kernel dammit.
other distros ship a PAE enabled kernel, and use that for NX enabled
machines (all NX capable machines support PAE obviously). I'm surprised
Ubuntu doesn't, maybe ask them? (Or use a distro that does have this)
--
if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-10 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-09 20:39 John Richard Moser
2006-12-10 9:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-10 15:34 ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-10 19:40 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-10 20:56 ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-10 21:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-10 21:05 ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-12 18:03 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-11 4:46 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 4:58 ` John Richard Moser
2006-12-11 5:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-11 13:33 ` Matthew Garrett
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