On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:56 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Looking through dmesg on my laptop, I noticed the following:
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
While this is certainly nice, the processor is quite capable of real
NX:
[snip]
Is there a reason this is not used?
Unfortunately, you have to use a PAE kernel to use real NX :(
Jeremy