Re: [X86] x86 SIG / Dropping PAE support

Florian Weimer <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:08:31 +0200

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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?

Florian