[Bug 897786] Re: Kernel is dropping non-PAE flavour

[MNLipp]

To anyone who happens to come here while searching for help with non-pae
capable hardware: Note that this bug has the wrong state, it should be
"Won't fix" (see Dave Lentz's comment on #1072311: "I agree that Fix
Released status for Quantal is a bit confusing (should have been 'Won't
Fix').")

I found in a report about the "Ubuntu Technical Board"'s discussion
(http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzM) that
"Maintaining the extra flavour is not much extra work". So I wonder
about the decision to no longer support a non-pae kernel. I spent some
time googling for comments on this problem and it seems that it is not
just me (and the currently 10 "also affected"). There are quite a lot of
people with "older" (some actually less than 5 years) but still fully
usable laptops who are affected by this.

As I stated in #1072311, my nc6000 is certainly not the fastest laptop
around, but works very well and can still match the demands of a current
Linux OS. I do not see why it (and similar) should be left out from new
features coming with versions beyond 12.04.

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Title:
  Kernel is dropping non-PAE flavour

Status in Ubuntu CD image build software:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “live-build” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-installer” source package in Precise:
  Invalid
Status in “debian-installer” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux-meta” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “live-build” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-installer” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid
Status in “debian-installer” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-meta” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “live-build” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Dropping the non-PAE ia32 kernel flavour has knock-on effects for
  installers.

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