On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Landry Breuil <lan...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:43:53AM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Ted Unangst wrote:
>>
>> > So I was supposed to be working on making the JIT engine conform to W^X a
>> > few
>> > months ago. It took a bit longer than expected, but I had a mostly working
>> > patch. Then I disappeared from OpenBSD for a bit and took my patch with me.
>> > Last week I was just starting to feed that patch upstream to firefox, when
>> > I
>> > found out about another developer who had already done similar work. Sigh.
>> >
>> > The official firefox patch seems likely to ship in some future version,
>> > which
>> > is good news for everyone. It's quite similar to the patch I had (though
>> > more
>> > polished). To make it available sooner for OpenBSD, here's a backport to
>> > the
>> > Firefox in ports.
>> >
>> > I haven't been able to test this very much, as I'm still at BSDCan, but
>> > when I
>> > get back next week I hope to be able to devote more time to finalizing this
>> > patch. Posting now to let people know it's coming and to give a preview if
>> > you're interested.
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> The official patch is now in.
>>
>> I don't know why it's enabled exclusively for iOS (maybe because it's
>> the only platform that has been thoroughly tested? Or because major
>> linux distros are not yet ready), probably Landry can shed some light
>> on this...
>>
>> Btw, my firefox-41.0.1 (rebuilt with the patch below) still hasn't
>> exploded during my tests: routinary browsing, GMail, Google Maps,
>> Twitter, etc...
>>
>> Comments? Opinions?
>
> Bring this upstream first :)
How? Can you intercede for me?
Cheers!
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