On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Ben Hutchings 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. I know, Centrino is just easier to remember than 'Pentium M'.
> 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. Wikipedia doesn't have it either, But Intel site has: http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?codeName=1788 (Banias) http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?codeName=2643 (Dothan; some of them support PAE, but apparently no Celeron ones) -- WBR, wRAR
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