Comment 160 for bug 930447

Now, that we have launched Raring, it's time to start thinking about the
future of the Ubuntu family.

One thing that I hope we can achieve, is to make the next version able
to cooperate with Pentium M, that has no pae flag, but still the ability
to run i686-pae kernels of *ubuntu.

I have verified that it works for me in an IBM Thinkpad T42 to use the
fake-pae method for Pentium M CPUs by 7bit according to this link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113826

This is good, but it would be great if this feature could be included in
*ubuntu, so that people can install a new version directly, and avoid
installing 12.04, add the fake-pae and upgrade to newer versions.

I'm prepared to use my Thinkpad for testing, but I don't know enough to
find and change the code.

Maybe I can even try to compile the crucial package(s), if someone can
hold my hands until I get the tools installed to do it (compilers,
makefiles, source code packages etc.)

The fake-pae fix in the ubuntuforums thread is not for everyone,
but I think it would be fairly easy to enter some logic to make a
difference between the Pentium M CPUs, that support pae, and the other
non-pae CPUs. I can make such logic statements, but I need help to find
where to put them.

By the way, I think most if not all of the computers without pae, that are useful for
anything but 'retro playing', are laptops with Pentium M. And, I think
the objective of this task is not to stuff those old computers with more than 2
GB of RAM to exploit the pae feature, but to be able to run a new
*ubuntu version at all with the memory available, often around 1 GB.