On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Graham Murray wrote
> Even if the processor supports the NX bit, in arch/i386/mm/init.c it
> looks as though NX is only enabled if PAE is configured (which
> requires setting 64G highmem)
Let me get this straight. In "make menuconfig"...
Processor type and features --->
High Memory Support (4GB) --->
(X) 64GB
...will automatically enable DEP (aka NX)? Is that correct? Sheesh;
talk about indirection. This is probably why I couldn't find any direct
reference to it in /usr/src/linux/.config.
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