Re: [X86] x86 SIG / Dropping PAE support
Jeff Backus <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:43:33 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/19/2017 12:41 AM, Jeff Backus wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/17/2017 06:30 PM, Jeff Backus wrote: >>> >>>> Also, I wanted to let you know that we have decided to drop PAE support. >>> >>> >>> >>> Does this disable direct NX support, too? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Florian >> >> >> Hmm.... Good question. Looks like it. I'm not very familiar with the >> no-execute stuff, but yes, I do believe it requires PAE. > > > Isn't this a rather significant feature regression? Only from a security standpoint? *sheepish grin* Thanks for point this out. We'll need to revisit. jeff -- Jeff Backus [email protected] http://github.com/jsbackus