Comment 162 for bug 930447

Then the Ubuntu kernel team is just retardedly stupid. And I will make it harsh.

There is no SINGLE technical reason to not support it. The kernel runs PAE kernels just fine. There is a bug maybe you can call it, that does not tell you that it IS pae (36 bit addressing) capable. It just lags the PAE flag. THe sheer amount of users coming here and to the forum thread alone should give you an idea that it is still relevant.

That said, they deliberatly broke the Pentium-M by checking for the PAE flag. Granted this should be a valid check, and the Pentium-M messes that check up. There's your bug.

Also, this bug is about SYSLINUX. NOT the kernel (it is now too though). SYSLINUX here checks on boot if you have the PAE flag and refuses to boot. It REFUSES, not because its technically not possible, no, because it was decided so, because of a silicon bug if you will.

Recently the kernel team decided to have a PAE check int he package. 'Only install if you have the PAE flag'. Now in the kernel package, this may make a little more sense, there's PAE and non-PAE kernels available, and adding a non-PAE ppa is easy. Syslinux can't be easily replaced, well you can grub chainload your ISO and all is well.

So if this truely is about support, then stop supporting the 32 bit architecture. Period. But with that even being the recommended architecture for must, I don't see this happening soon. This again, has nothing to do with the Pentium-M not being supported, but about the CPU not properly announcing PAE.