Re: wikipedia amd64 Intel EM64T W^X OpenBSD

2006-07-20 Thread Siju George
On 7/19/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George wrote: ... so does this mean that W^X support was available on EM64T processorseven before XD bit was added if you use OpenBSD? Sure it was...IF you ran OpenBSD/i386 on it. If you ran OpenBSD/amd64, no. Thankyou so much Jeff and

wikipedia amd64 Intel EM64T W^X OpenBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Siju George
Hi, Reading Through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64#FreeBSD under OpenBSD it says 2004. Complete in-tree support for the platform was achieved prior to the hardware's initial release due to AMD's loaning of several machines for the project's hackathon that year. OpenBSD developers have

Re: wikipedia amd64 Intel EM64T W^X OpenBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: ... so does this mean that W^X support was available on EM64T processorseven before XD bit was added if you use OpenBSD? Sure it was...IF you ran OpenBSD/i386 on it. If you ran OpenBSD/amd64, no. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-02/2145.html