linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

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Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:11:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@...il.com>, davej@...hat.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

On 02/26/2014 09:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>> Yes.  Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and
>>> "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way.
>>
>> Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken.
>>
> 
> Oh, good to hear.
> 

Hmm... this doesn't seem to actually be the case.  I recently did a F20
install on a clean system, and it still uses linux/initrd.  So unless
you changed the meaning of linux/initrd inside of Grub2, it is still
doing the pointless bypass.

	-hpa


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