On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:56 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Looking through dmesg on my laptop, I noticed the following: > > Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection > > While this is certainly nice, the processor is quite capable of real > NX: [snip] > Is there a reason this is not used? Unfortunately, you have to use a PAE kernel to use real NX :( Jeremy