Red Hat Enterprise Linux Support

We do support different type of of kernel packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux contains the following kernel packages.

kernel - contains the kernel and following key features:
Uniprocessor support (will utilize a single processor on multi-processor systems)
Multi-processor support for Intel EM64T systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 only)
4GB RAM support on Intel and AMD x86 systems(1)

kernel-BOOT - contains the installation kernel (x86 only)
Uniprocessor support

kernel-{*-}devel (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 only) - contains kernel header files
replaces kernel-source

kernel-doc - contains kernel documentation
previously found in /usr/src/linux{-*}/Documentation

kernel-hugemem (i686 only) - in addition to the options of kernel-smp:
4GB/4GB split - ~4GB of virtual address space for kernel resources and ~4GB for each user processor
Should be utilized on systems/loads where more addressable kernel resources are required including greater than 16GB systems

kernel-smp - in addition to the options of kernel:
multi processor support (all architectures)
PAE - Physical Address Extension (Intel x86 only) upto 16GB RAM(2)

kernel-pcmcia-cs (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 only) - contains support for PCMCIA cards

kernel-source (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 only) - contains complete source code for the Linux kernel

kernel-utils - contains utilities that can be used to control the kernel or system hardware.

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