> On 14Jan2015 01:05, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:38:49PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > >> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Mike Larkin <[email protected]> > >> > > wrote: > >> > >> i386 is next, but that requires a PAE paging model and compatible CPU. > >> > >> I've got the PAE mode booting but it's not ready for prime time yet. > >> > > >> > Hmm, once PAE is working well, maybe we can kill off non-PAE i386 > >> > support and reduce the set of non-W^X systems we monitor. There's > >> > some horrid code in ld.so that should be running in the fields behind > >> > the barn... > >> > >> That means dropping support for all Geode based soekris/alix machines, > >> VIA C3 and at least some Pentium M machines among others. Which is going > >> to upset more than a few people... > > > >Maybe Philip's barn is full of replacement machines! > > Will he ship them to me? > I speak as one totally dependent on my Soekris firewalls running OpenBSD. > > I'm totally for this W^X work, but if it make it impossible to install > OpenBSD > on my soekris machines I will be VERY unhappy.
Don't worry. It won't happen the way Philip describes. i386 will still run on pre-PAE machines after those future changes.
