On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 22:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/24/2013 7:41 AM, Tixy wrote: > > > Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. > > PAE is in every AMD/Intel chip manufactured post 1998. You'd have to be > using a Pentium MMX, AMD K6-2, or older chip, to lack PAE support. > > The general rule here: if the chip clock is greater than 550 MHz it has > PAE, PSE, PSE-36, or all three, and you're golden. Few people are using > chips this old, thus this question actually should never pop up. > Curious that it does, given you can find this information so easily with > Google.
Unfortunately, the top hits for me when searching for "pentium m pae" in Google is Wikipedia, which is at best misleading if not wrong. And the second hit is someone asking what processors don't support PAE and quoting Wikipedia as saying Pentium M is amongst those that don't. (I haven't linked to those sources in case in helps in some small way to boost their search rankings.) I did however not rely on these source anyway and looked at Intel's site and found the spec for my CPU said it had 32-bit Physical Address Extensions, which confused me initially because 32-bits didn't seem 'extended'. (I guess it's just that they haven't baked or wired up move address lines.) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361869435.3213.13.ca...@computer5.home
