kernel-PAE and NX (No eXecute)

Christopher Brown snecklifter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 15:14:29 UTC 2007


Hello Till,

On 12/11/2007, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> Hiyas,
>
> is still the kernel-PAE kernel needed in Fedora to use NX (No eXcute)? I read
> that the 2.6.23 kernel supports NX without the need to activate 64G memory
> support? If PAE for NX is not yet enabled in the normal kernel package, can
> we enable it and rename the -PAE package to e.g. HIGHMEM64 or similiar, to
> make it more obvious what it is useful for?

Probably better to be asked on the fedora-kernel list. If you don't
want to subscribe I'm happy to ask on your behalf as I don't have the
answer.

Cheers
Chris


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