On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:08:08PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > Hiyas, > > is still the kernel-PAE kernel needed in Fedora to use NX (No eXcute)? Yes. The NX bit lives in the pagetables defined in the PAE format. There's no room in the non-PAE variant, so this won't change. It's a hardware limitation that the kernel cannot work around. If you install the non-PAE kernel, execshield will 'emulate' NX using segmentation hacks. > I read > that the 2.6.23 kernel supports NX without the need to activate 64G memory > support? not true. > If PAE for NX is not yet enabled in the normal kernel package, can > we enable it and rename the -PAE package to e.g. HIGHMEM64 or similiar, to > make it more obvious what it is useful for? I see no reason to change the existing naming Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
