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On 03/02/2014 12:56 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 
> (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into
> boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to
> (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its static
> boot-time flag?
> Last time I checked PAE support config defines were spread over ~ 40
> kernel source files though :-((()
> 

As far as I know the "static boottime flag" in Windows simply loads one
of several possible kernels.

	-hpa