[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

What about idea not to *add* pae versions of xen kernels, but to *replace* 
non-pae versions with pae versions?

Rationale:

- not increase in archive size or linux-2.6 package build time,

- this will improve compatimility with other distros (consider scenario 
when running FC or RHEL in domU; these distros do ship only pae xen 
kernels, according to 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/2006-December/000998.html)

- pae kernels are ok for any x86 machines; slowdown caused by enabling pae 
on machines with less than 3.%G of memory, if any at all, is hardly 
measurable on machines where using xen makes sence (anyone using xen on 
Pentium-I with 128M of ram?)