Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:29:03AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:10 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > And it might be non-obvious, but some CPUs (e.g. the one in my
> > not-so-old laptop) don't support PAE, so making the default kernel use
> > PAE would make debian unbootable on them.
>
> Because it's too hard to have ubiquity
What's ubiquity?
> run a script that checks if the processor supports PAE and then enable
> it by default if it does, right?
Enable what? Last time I checked, a given kernel image either user PAE
or not, there was no flag to control it.
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