On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 10:47 +0000, Jia Yuan Lo wrote:
- We have decided to drop support for PAE, so please feel free to
disable it on the next build
I suppose people who wants to use more than 4GB of RAM (and all the other x64 benefits) should just use 64bit altogether...
Indeed, if you have > 4G of physical address space to handle you certainly want a 64bit kernel these days.
The only reason for keeping PAE for 32bit kernels would be NX support (which requires 64bit page table entries so it works in PAE mode only).
cheers, Gerd