Re: Attempts at security
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 01:20, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Feb 2007, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > One that springs to mind is CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, it seems only useful if you
> > > have
> >
> > You need to enable PAE (64GB support) to access the NX bit on ia32, which
> > is even worse, and that's the reason why my 1GB laptop has a PAE kernel :(
>
> My impression (after a quick google search) is that only applies when running
> a 32bit kernel on a 64bit CPU. Best to just run an AMD64 kernel and have NX
> without any problems.
Also for 32 bits on a 32 bit CPU, which is my case. ia32 is not only the
32bits mode of a 64-bit processor. It is the old i386...i686 arches too.
So I happen to not HAVE amd64 hardware in the laptop, at all :)
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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