From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: steve@quintile.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom-nix
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:40:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <630d45bfb2d8aea88af2579266a83e4f@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54e0b9d776dc13d14e7e019996954f1c@quintile.net>
On Wed Jan 9 16:37:17 EST 2013, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > If it requires PAE, it will not run on Banias and Dothan B-stepping
> > and C-stepping (on 400MHz FSB) CPUs (most Pentium M's).
>
> one question, is the kernel able to print a message if it is started
> on incompatible machine:
>
> panic: this kernel requires PAE which is not supported by this hardware.
>
> Could save a lot of time messing about with the wrong kernel.
no. you're welcome to add the test, but it would have to be
some fiddly assembly before the page tables are set up.
non-pae machines are unlikely to have >4gb of memory.
if unsure, with the 386 kernel, you can do this
; aux/cpuid -f|grep pae
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 3:03 erik quanstrom
2013-01-09 9:57 ` Anthony Martin
2013-01-09 13:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-01-09 21:26 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2013-01-09 21:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-09 21:36 ` Steve Simon
2013-01-09 21:40 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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