Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

According to: http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html W^X will not work on Intel's 64 bit chips. I for one chose to go with i386 on my Core 2 because of this fact alone. Then I saw this: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20041011182310.html and scores of other pages that refer to the XD bit. O

Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

I am not so sure of that.If you go here: http://processorfinder.intel.com/Default.aspx and then select Core 2 Duo or some such... then filter by "Execute Disable Bit" under supported features... you will see a bunch of Core 2s. The Core 2 is ia32e. It is not EM64T. According to some sites... if

Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

Well I'll be durned.. apparently ia32e is EM64T(Intel's marketing name for it). I was thinking it was the itanium arch which is actually ia64. But either way... EM64T is supposed to run on AMD64... the only question is will OpenBSD respond accordingly when NXE is present during dmesg. And if so.

Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

I sent a message and it looks like it got rejected... basically I found out that ia32e is EM64T(Intel's marketing name for it). I was thinking it was the itanium arch which is actually ia64. But either way... EM64T is supposed to run on AMD64... and it appears that the Intel chips do support t

Re: Unable to map phys mem on Intel D945G motherboard

Your message header seems to point to an issue that has come up a few times. However.. your message body doesn't really give any good clues. I would suggest looking at a past post with the subject "OpenBSD 4.1 install issue??" from early May of this year. If my guess is correct.. when you use the

Anyone seen the quantis rng available?

It looks pretty interesting and I know support for it has been worked on for OpenBSD. The only problem is that is seems next to impossible to find in the U.S. There site shows very few distributors and of the three emails that I have sent them over the last year... I have yet to hear from them.

Re: assembler noob question

This link helped me when I was learning about x86 on OpenBSD... http://www.phiral.net/openbsdasm.htm I decided not to use the GCC __asm__ deal for various reasons that I don't remember. I think in particular.. I did not like the look at AT&T syntax vs. Intel syntax. I wrote an assembly version