Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?
Adriaan <[email protected]>
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On 9/21/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > EM64T is supposed to run on AMD64... and it appears that the Intel chips do support the NXE bit since around 2005. > Can anyone confirm that the newer ia32e chips (made after early 2005) are actually supporting W^X? It seems that just because NXE is shown in the dmesg wouldn't necessarily mean that OpenBSD would then use it. [snip] You can lookup support for the Execution Disable Bit for your processor at http://processorfinder.intel.com/Default.aspx For example http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL99W =Adriaan=