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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:36:24 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Igor <runixd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nx-bit and TPM
Message-ID:  <86648johpj.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <e318b01b0703291334q1e05eda4y36cdd8a86cb3c597@mail.gmail.com> (runixd@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:34:22 %2B0100")
References:  <e318b01b0703291334q1e05eda4y36cdd8a86cb3c597@mail.gmail.com>

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Igor <runixd@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm was looking through handbook and wikipedia and it appears FreeBSD
> doesn't support hardware (nor software) nx bit.
> There also doesn't seem to be any support for TPM (Trusted Platform Modul=
e).

I believe NX support was never implemented because Intel's version of
AMD64 didn't support it.  As for TPM, I don't see the point.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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