Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote:
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
We can also simply do this:
- Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE.
i.e. make PAE the default kernel.
Yes, I really think we should just do this. It's simple, it means we get the
logic right
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:15:37 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis fed...@leemhuis.info wrote:
On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote:
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
We can also simply do this:
- Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE.
i.e. make PAE the default kernel.
Yes, I really think we
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 10:19 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Chris Lalancette (clala...@redhat.com) said:
Do we know if anaconda is going to change
to choose kernel-PAE for any machine with the PAE flag, regardless of the
amount
of memory?
That's the plan - the patch should be pretty
- Should we be using the PAE kernel *regardless* of memory size (as
implied above) or do we want some memory requirements?
It's always preferable on hardware (where pae actually works) that also has
the nx cpu feature. True PROT_EXEC enforcement (NX) is only available in
PAE mode.
Thanks,
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:38:42 -0800 (PST)
Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote:
If we have NX (which anything made in the last few years will)
it's a performance win to use the hardware NX instead of the
segment limit hack we implemented in execshield.
It's more than performance. The
