> Thank you Theo for the quick reply. I will give it a shot as it appears > from your answer the newer Intel processors should have this > functionality, albeit named very unconventionally. Would there be > something in dmesg that would indicate proper W^X support once > installed?
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,MMXX,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW That little 'NXE' above indicates it has it. Whether it works correct or not is another matter. > Maybe one of these days closed hardware vendors like Intel, Creative, > etc., will open up a bit and provide the necessary support to people > trying to write software that will flawlessly work with various > hardware, much better than the original vendor could ever dream of > doing. Good lord; why would they do that. Their investment overlords would never permit a open and fair playing field or competitive market. Monopolies like monopolies, and olygopolies are really just monolopies.
