But it does work on certain ia32e chips...
I think the last line should read... "some (earlier) ia32e chips
do not have W^X support".
At least to give some information so that people can research
their chip further.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Shockley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?
Rob Waite wrote:
"It also runs on the Intel ia32e processors (...) but since Intel
left out support for the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute)
there is no W^X support on the Intel CPUs."
Perhaps that last line should be "...on the Intel ia32e CPUs."?
