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.
Disclaimer: OpenBSD user, not OpenBSD hacker.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
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