Re: Opterons and the NX flag.

To: Patrick Flaherty <patrick@activmedia.com>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Opterons and the NX flag.
From: Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:53:26 +0200
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Patrick Flaherty <patrick@activmedia.com> writes:

> According to the 2.6.8 change log, Ingo added support to boot smp
> opterons in NX mode.

That change only added NX support for i386 kernels running on
processors which support that bit.  It gets enabled if you configure
the kernel with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G (which turns on PAE mode).

x86_64 kernels already had support for the NX bit, at least for a year
now.

        Juergen

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/

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