NX emulation

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Thu May 27 23:29:17 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:07:39PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Right, yes.  To that end, would you recommend a specific mailing list
> > other than lkml to start on for just the x86 folks, or is lkml really the
> > best bet for that?
> 
> Just the usual rules as per MAINTAINERS:
> 
> To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> 	Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> 	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> CC:	x86 at kernel.org, lkml
> CC:	roland at redhat.com, kmcmartin at redhat.com

I always go look at vger's lists for x86 instead of MAINTAINERS.  *head-desk*

> Yeah, well, it's taken us several cycles to get around to bothering to try.
> At any rate, IMHO a series/branch of patches proposed upstream is the thing
> we'll want to share.  Even if it's not all (or any) merged upstream soon
> (or ever), that process will yield cleaned-up and granular patches that are
> better to maintain (and to share across distros) as well as being better to
> merge if the NAKers relent.

Sounds good.

Thanks,

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team


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