Alan wrote (21 Dec 2013 21:57:01 GMT) :
> If I'm not mistaken, this will remove NX bit protection on 32 bits only
> CPUs supporting PAE and NX. Such hardware include, as far as I
> understand: Intel Pentium 4 "prescott" and later, Intel Pentium M
> "dothan" and later, Intel Core (not 2) Solo and Duo, 32 bits Intel
> Atom, Via C7. This is not the most common hardware currently, but I
> think it should however be thought, if it was not already.
Correct. These will also lose SMP, by the way. We could ship *three*
kernels to avoid this, but I personally don't think it's worth it.
Cheers,
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