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

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Sun Mar 02 2014 - 16:13:36 EST


On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing.
> > Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd
> > suggest just letting 32-bit slowly die instead of doing dramatic
> > overhauls that will no doubt introduce a bunch of regressions in code
> > that's been notoriously awful to debug issues in during the past.
>
> Amen!

Did I just smell two or three historically burnt fingers? ;)

While that was slightly disheartening, thanks for the very fast clarification,
Dave et al.!

Andreas Mohr
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