Subject: Re: [vserver] PAE free kernels for Ubuntu Lucid
From: Andrew Ruthven <andrew.ruthven@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:20:19 +1200
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:20:19 +1200
Hi,

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 08:31 +0200, Christoph Lukas wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> > I've installed a PPA kernel for Lucid as per:
> > 
> >   http://linux-vserver.org/Installation on Ubuntu
> > 
> > But with a nasty catch, the CPU in my i386 workstation doesn't have PAE
> > and the i386 kernel from that repo requires PAE.  Would it be possible
> > to provide a PAE free kernel image for Lucid?
> 
> hm. What kind of CPU would that be? :)

The Pentium M 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz CPUs found in IBM Thinkpad T40 and T41s.
I have a training room kitted out with these and I was hoping to run
vserver training with them.

> If this is a somewhat rare CPU type I could probably provide a kernel
> for you outside of the PPA. 

It appears that Pentium M processors at 1.6GHz and above have PAE.  My
ones have 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz CPUs.

> If this might be a problem for others too it might be necessary to even
> change the i386 config for the PPA kernels or to supply another flavour
> without pae.
> 
> Let me know what you think.

I guess it depends on how many people are running 5 year old
machines.  :)

I could build a custom kernel myself as well, but I was hoping to be
able to avoid that!

Cheers!

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