Re: NX/PAE on i386

2009-02-16 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá John e a todos. On Friday 13 February 2009 22:03:30 John Moser wrote: > 1. Ship -generic as an i686 kernel with PAE, so that NX works > 2. Ship -legacy as an i486 kernel without PAE From what I've read on the ubuntu-kernel ML the idea is to cut down on the number of available kernels. Your

NX/PAE on i386

2009-02-13 Thread John Moser
the i386 version of Ubuntu has some fairly odd characteristics: - It's i486 compiled, but called i386 - The generic kernel is i586 IIRC, but not PAE - Because of the above, non-executable pages are executable I've thought on this, and come up with a rather basic solution: 1. Ship -generic as