On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Looking through dmesg on my laptop, I noticed the following: > > Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection > > While this is certainly nice, the processor is quite capable of real > NX: > > $ grep nx /proc/cpuinfo > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr > > Is there a reason this is not used? > > kernel is 2.6.19-1.2891, processor is a Intel Core Duo CPU L2400 is NX disabled in the BIOS? -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
