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

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:28:46PM +0100, Ante Karamatic wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:51:32 +0000
> Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > Therefore I am proposing we create a new i386 only flavour generic64g
> > which is identicle to the generic flavour except that it enables PAE
> > and options that that requires.
> > 
> > Following this email is a patch implementing this for Jaunty.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> I don't think people will understand what generic64g means (think of
> linux-generic, linux-server and linux-generic64g; what's 64g?[1]). Sure,

Yeah the name could well be better.  I was staying away from things with
- and the like as they tend to go wrong.  I wanted to get something out
for discussion and am happy to rework the name.

> they could read release notes or some how to, but naming it, for
> example, generic-bigmem would be self explanatory (maybe even just
> bigmem). Even linux-generic-pae would make more sense, since these days
> even lots of Windows users do know that 'PAE makes all memory
> available'.
> 
> [1] at first, I didn't make the connection between generic64g and 64GB
> limit. I don't think it's wise to put limitations in the name of the
> package :)

-apw