kernel patch needed for wine?

Uffe Jakobsen uffe at uffe.org
Thu Jul 1 00:26:54 UTC 2010


Alexander Kabaev writes:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:45:18 -0700
> Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which means that Linux is broken in this regard because it's loading
>> data as text, not data as data and text as text?
>> Thanks,
> 
> Nope, I think this is i386 vs. amd64 difference. NX page protection is
> enforced in long mode, or in 32-bit with PAE, if I remember things
> correctly.
> 

i386 32bit-mode page table has no NX bit - the PAE page table has...

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/Uffe


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