From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Levon Subject: Re: bimodal PAE and compatibility Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:29:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20070108152901.GA3661@totally.trollied.org.uk> References: <20070108144932.GA1557@totally.trollied.org.uk> <45A25DC0.1040401@suse.de> <20070108151609.GD1557@totally.trollied.org.uk> <45A26214.8040300@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45A26214.8040300@suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:24:04PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Moving the bimodal flag to another elf node doesn't fix the problem that > older Xen versions don't support bimodal kernels I never said it did. What it /does/ do is allow you to specify a correct fallback rather than assuming that pae=no is the right one. It isn't for us: currently we do not intend to ship a non-PAE kernel as we have no infrastructure for such an (alien to Solaris) restriction. > non-pae one bimodal and one pae kernel works too. But you can't get > that down to only one kernel unless you drop support for xen versions > below 3.0.4 ... Or drop any support for non-PAE before 3.0.4 which is exactly what we were and are doing anyway. regards john