Alan wrote (21 Dec 2013 21:57:01 GMT) : > If I'm not mistaken, this will remove NX bit protection on 32 bits only > CPUs supporting PAE and NX. Such hardware include, as far as I > understand: Intel Pentium 4 "prescott" and later, Intel Pentium M > "dothan" and later, Intel Core (not 2) Solo and Duo, 32 bits Intel > Atom, Via C7. This is not the most common hardware currently, but I > think it should however be thought, if it was not already.
Correct. These will also lose SMP, by the way. We could ship *three* kernels to avoid this, but I personally don't think it's worth it. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
