On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 17:05 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:32:08PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > JM> How about trying a “grep pae /proc/cpuinfo” instead of looking for > > JM> approximate CPU descriptions? > > And indeed lshw says > > product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz > > capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep > > mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts > > > > I.e., no pae. > > > > So I would add "often" in the Description: > Or specifically mention early Centrino CPUs not having PAE support.
The Centrino brand refers to a combination of Pentium M, Intel chipset and approved WLAN adapter which all have good power-saving facilities. It doesn't refer to a processor. You are correct that most Pentium M processors do not have PAE (or do not advertise it in CPU feature flags). I didn't know some of the Pentium Ms were also called 'Celeron'; I'll see if I can rephrase the description accordingly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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