On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumistos@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Jeff Backus jeff.backus@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry I'm just now following up on this. Not enough hours in the day. The point has come up that by dropping PAE support we are also dropping NX support, and therefore introducing a pretty big security regression. Are we okay with this? Do we want to continue to support PAE?
Of course it would be Nice To Have™, but does anyone have any 32-bit system with more than 4GB RAM to test stuff? If not, we can not support it.
Again, deepest apologies for my laggard reply.
Yes, we would need a +4GB RAM machine to test the PAE end of it, but any machine should be able to leverage the NX part of it. Agreed with the Nice To Have assessment. I'm willing to accept the security risk if it eases support requirements.
jeff