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

Ben Hutchings linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 May 2011 10:12:36 -0700


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On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>=20
> > Say, for the sake of sharing a single .deb offline, what bad thing migh=
t
> > 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=
.
>=20
> Nothing happens. You just won't be able to use pae capabilities. Which
> means you are limited to ~3.5GiB physical memory.

Also no SMP.

Ben.

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