Re: i386 GENERIC_PAE panics (i915drmkms related?)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:32:27PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20/01/2017 18:18, John D. Baker wrote:
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> > The intent of booting i386 release on this amd64 machine is to build
> > packages for i386 faster than even my fastest real i386 can.  It's faster,
> > has more CPUs and with the extra RAM and PAE, I can put WRKOBJDIR in
> > /tmp on tmpfs for everything except "misc/libreoffice".
> > 
> If that's your primary goal have you considered using pkg_comp. That builds
> packages in chroot environments and on amd64 can build packages for i386.
> From one 7.0 amd64 machine I build packages for 6.x/i386, and 7.0/amd64. I
> did also do 7.0/i386 as well until I switched that machine to 64bit. That
> might be a better alternative that trying to bludgeon a PAE kernel into
> life.

The other option is Xen. I generally would avoid the PAE kernel. Both
cases have a few issues with Emacs, but that's the only problem I am
aware of.

Joerg