From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a DEP (Data Execution Protection) option for Gentoo?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:52:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060328055242.GA18395@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5g7hlg6.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Graham Murray wrote
> Even if the processor supports the NX bit, in arch/i386/mm/init.c it
> looks as though NX is only enabled if PAE is configured (which
> requires setting 64G highmem)
Let me get this straight. In "make menuconfig"...
Processor type and features --->
High Memory Support (4GB) --->
(X) 64GB
...will automatically enable DEP (aka NX)? Is that correct? Sheesh;
talk about indirection. This is probably why I couldn't find any direct
reference to it in /usr/src/linux/.config.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-27 4:29 [gentoo-user] Is there a DEP (Data Execution Protection) option for Gentoo? Walter Dnes
2006-03-27 5:50 ` Heiko Wundram
2006-03-27 6:08 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-03-27 5:57 ` Richard Fish
2006-03-27 12:12 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-27 15:30 ` Richard Fish
2006-03-27 17:00 ` Graham Murray
2006-03-27 18:24 ` Richard Fish
2006-03-28 5:52 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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