From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753840AbaCCAMQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:12:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48107 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753669AbaCCAMN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:12:13 -0500 Message-ID: <5313C8CD.4090405@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:11:57 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: Chris Bainbridge , davej@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable References: <20140225060146.GA4339@debian.local> <530C7465.2080600@zytor.com> <20140225162611.GA31902@redhat.com> <530CCFD2.3050007@zytor.com> <20140226121256.GA8494@debian.local> <20140226164433.GA19341@srcf.ucam.org> <530E1A35.40506@zytor.com> <20140226171053.GA22567@srcf.ucam.org> <530E2B06.5010608@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <530E2B06.5010608@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/26/2014 09:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and >>> "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way. >> >> Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken. >> > > Oh, good to hear. > Hmm... this doesn't seem to actually be the case. I recently did a F20 install on a clean system, and it still uses linux/initrd. So unless you changed the meaning of linux/initrd inside of Grub2, it is still doing the pointless bypass. -hpa