[PATCH 0/1] [Jaunty] LP#74179 -- support for i386 machines with >3GB RAM

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:38:46AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:

> I am not in favor of another flavor. Despite the reluctance of some
> folks to use the server flavour, it _does_ solve their use case with no
> effort on our part. If these users are that sensitive to the
> optimization differences between generic and server, then they'll have
> to run a 64 bit kernel.
> 
> My goal is to actually reduce the i386 flavours for Jaunty+1 to just
> generic. Hardy should be the last LTS that supports a 32 bit server.

Then if we plan on having just one flavour in N+1 that would have to be
PAE enabled.

I thought the issue there was that some older h/w doesn't support PAE
necessarily (i want to say lpia is in this situation though am not sure
why) so we would end up needing an PAE and non-PAE build still?

-apw