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This topic is related to five-year-old topic: https://bbs.archlinux32.org/viewtopic.php?id=2462
What if:
1. Arch Linux 32 would build kernels in package "linux" without PAE for i486 (as is), and (new) with PAE for i686 and pentium4;
and:
2. Arch Linux 32 would scrap package "linux-pae" entirely (it appears to be out-of-date anyway - currently 6.2 versus 6.11.3).
Proposed advantages:
a. i686 and pentium4 users with more than 4GB RAM would then get up-to-date PAE kernels.
(i686 and pentium4 users with 4GB or less RAM would still run fine despite then getting PAE kernels - other 32-bit distributions have been doing this for years - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_ … sion#Linux .)
and:
b. One less package ("linux-pae") to maintain.
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The main reason for having split linux and linux-pae are there are systems supporting i686 and pentium4 (mainly embedded things) which
will never have close to 4 GB of RAM (think an Alix board with 256 MB RAM). PAE is a property of the kernel being built and not of the
subarchitecture being supported. OTOH I agree things should be up- to-date and could share a common configuration, being patched
in the miniconfig-style.
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Many thanks for your clarification. In what timeframe do you think it might be possible to get packages "linux" and "linux-pae" to share a common configuration, so that both are equally up-to-date?
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