"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I agree that PAE is the necessary option if your processor is too > old and does not support the NX bit. Sorry I did not mention that.
Even if the processor supports the NX bit, in arch/i386/mm/init.c it looks as though NX is only enabled if PAE is configured (which requires setting 64G highmem) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list