On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Graham Murray wrote > 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)
Let me get this straight. In "make menuconfig"... Processor type and features ---> High Memory Support (4GB) ---> (X) 64GB ...will automatically enable DEP (aka NX)? Is that correct? Sheesh; talk about indirection. This is probably why I couldn't find any direct reference to it in /usr/src/linux/.config. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list