It appears that not all Pentium M CPUs are created equal.

I have SL6 installed in a dual boot config w/WinXP on my Dell Latitude 
D610 w/a Pentium M, 1.86GHz (x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8).  A check 
with Auslogics' System Information analyzer indicates that it supports 
PAE.

If the limitations of the current 32-bit kernel are spelled out and 
posted, at least folks would have a heads up for potential roadblocks.

--
Jon

On 14 Apr 2011 at 19:50, Phil Schaffner wrote:

[snip]

> My non-PAE-capable IBM T42p Pentium-M laptop is dead ATM from a fan 
> failure, but the possibility of a compatible SL6 release might prompt
> me to resurrect it.  Part of the reason I have not bothered to hack the
> hardware is the upstream decision to drop support for non-PAE 32-bit
> systems.
> 
> As a matter of principle I heartily endorse the idea.  There is a lot
> of functional hardware out there that does not do PAE, but still has life
> left in it.
> 
> Phil