On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
<alex.ploumistos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Jeff Backus
<jeff.backus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I'm just now following up on this. Not enough hours in the day.
> The point has come up that by dropping PAE support we are also
> dropping NX support, and therefore introducing a pretty big security
> regression. Are we okay with this? Do we want to continue to support
> PAE?
Of course it would be Nice To Haveā¢, but does anyone have any 32-bit
system with more than 4GB RAM to test stuff? If not, we can not
support it.
Again, deepest apologies for my laggard reply.
Yes, we would need a +4GB RAM machine to test the PAE end of it, but
any machine should be able to leverage the NX part of it. Agreed with
the Nice To Have assessment. I'm willing to accept the security risk
if it eases support requirements.
jeff
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