[Publicity-commits] r2044 - /dpn/en/current/index.wml

[tolimar at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: tolimar
Date: Fri Apr 29 18:38:24 2011
New Revision: 2044

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/publicity/?sc=1&rev=2044
Log:
Adding some stuff from planet.debian which sounds interesting Part 6

Modified:
    dpn/en/current/index.wml

Modified: dpn/en/current/index.wml
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/publicity/dpn/en/current/index.wml?rev=2044&op=diff
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--- dpn/en/current/index.wml (original)
+++ dpn/en/current/index.wml Fri Apr 29 18:38:24 2011
@@ -38,6 +38,32 @@
 He also founded the <q><a href="http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/">NTP
 Pool</a></q> (crowd-sourced time synchronisation), which our project
 has since fully adopted.
+</p>
+
+
+<toc-add-entry name="lk-i386">Upcoming changes for the Linux lernels on the i386 architecture</toc-add-entry>
+
+<p>
+Ben Hutchings <a
+href="http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/upcoming-changes-in-debian-linux-packages-for-i386.html">announced
+some upcoming changes</a> for the <a
+href="http://packages.debian.org/src:linux-2.6">Linux kernels</a> in the
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/ports/i386/">i386 architecture</a> (aka
+32-Bit PC). The most notable change With the 2.6.39 kernel packages will be
+the drop of the <tt>686</tt> flavour, even so it's the most widely used. Ben
+explains, that there's only a very limited set of processors, which are not
+able to use the <tt>686-bigmem</tt> flavours, which has less limitations but
+supports more that 4GB of RAM (and has some other benefits).  He also
+points out, that these processors not supported by the <tt>686-bigmem</tt> flavour
+seem run more performant with the <tt>486</tt> flavour. Without the
+<tt>686</tt> flavour, the <tt>686-bigmem</tt> will also be renamed to
+<tt>686-pae</tt>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He also said, that the <tt>amd64</tt> flavour will be droped, as soon as
+migrationt from 32 Bit userland with 64 Bit kernel to a 64 Bit userland
+with 64 But kernel is implemented and has been tested.
 </p>