[ltp] Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

Goswin von Brederlow linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 May 2011 18:28:13 +0200


jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> Say, for the sake of sharing a single .deb offline, what bad thing might
> happen if I run the -486 kernel on my other machines where I could run
> the -pae kernel? Namely other single Celerons having the pae capability.

Nothing happens. You just won't be able to use pae capabilities. Which
means you are limited to ~3.5GiB physical memory.

MfG
        Goswin