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.

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