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> On 14 April 2011 23:48, Dag Wieers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>> 
>>> I believe that processor does not support PAE, so you are out of
>>> luck. 
>>> 
>>> Again, this is a Red Hat decision. The EL6 32-bit kernel is what
>>> was a PAE kernel for EL5. Putting it another way, the EL5 32-bit
>>> non-PAE kernel has been dropped for EL6 and so what would known as
>>> a PAE kernel has had that descriptor removed.
> 
>> There might be a case for a drop-in replacement kernel that supports
>> non-PAE 32bit systems. So at least a PXE/USB installation works
>> fine, without the need to respin the ISO (which may be too
>> troublesome). 
>> 
>> Of course, that would also mean we'd have to update that non-PAE
>> kernel as part of that repository. If people have a clear need for
>> this (and there is at least one committed to support this) do speak
>> up. It might be the beginning of something beautiful...
> 
> You've obviously had similar thoughts just like mine . . . but have
> developed them that bit further.
> 
> It really depends upon the need for non-PAE 32-bit kernels for EL6.
> 
> Alan.

All my field hardware is non-PAE (AMD Geode LX800 => -march=586); as are
many, if not most embedded and/or low-power targets.
I'm running RH7.3 (pre-Fedora) because I need to hack the kernel source
to support legacy hardware.

I would like (greatly) to see a non-PAE 32-bit 586-aware kernel
available, and to be able to
yum install full-kernel-source

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