From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753530AbaCBVNa (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:13:30 -0500 Received: from rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:59542 "EHLO rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752219AbaCBVN2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:13:28 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:13:28 +0100 From: Andreas Mohr To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Jones , Andreas Mohr , Chris Bainbridge , Dennis Mungai , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable Message-ID: <20140302211328.GA20674@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> References: <20140228140043.GA12157@debian.local> <20140302205619.GA8676@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20140302210201.GA31948@redhat.com> <20140302210419.GB25710@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140302210419.GB25710@pd.tnic> X-Priority: none User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing. > > Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd > > suggest just letting 32-bit slowly die instead of doing dramatic > > overhauls that will no doubt introduce a bunch of regressions in code > > that's been notoriously awful to debug issues in during the past. > > Amen! Did I just smell two or three historically burnt fingers? ;) While that was slightly disheartening, thanks for the very fast clarification, Dave et al.! Andreas Mohr