Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 29 Mar 2007
23:36:24 +0200):
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm was looking through handbook and wikipedia and it appears FreeBSD
doesn't support hardware (nor software) nx bit.
There also doesn't seem to be any support for TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
I believe NX support was never implemented because Intel's version of
AMD64 didn't support it. As for TPM, I don't see the point.
This should not stop us in using it on amd64 if available. I think one
of the problem was/is the lack of time/man-power. So if someone comes
up with a good (enough) implementation which works on our supported
hardware, I don't think it will be rejected.
Regarding TPM: there are good an bad uses for it. As our policy is to
provide possibilities and not to force policies on our users, I don't
see a reason why we will not incorporate good code regarding this. I
also think that we don't have it, as nobody needed it or wasn't
allowed to contribute code.
But all this is better suited for arch@ I think (or maybe amd64@ in
case of NX).
Bye,
Alexander.
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