Status of NX bit support.

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Apr 3 21:19:44 UTC 2006


On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:06:07PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> >On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:48, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >  
> >>I was wondering what the status of the NX bit support is. Is the pmap.c 
> >>code still broken or is support enabled and functioning by default?
> >>    
> >
> >I don't think the status has changed.
> >
> >  
> 
> Well that sucks.. I guess then there really is no reason for someone to 
> run in amd64 mode unless you need more than 4GB of ram.
> 

You're joking, right?  How many registers are available for the
i386?  How many registers are available to an AMD64 cpu in 
64-bit mode?

-- 
Steve


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