From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 04:41:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564C716A403 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40CB43D5A for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:41:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so2540424pye for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:41:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=khZahS/pXgtaKAr66/wPBa5tE3CN2ViqqIceF5DQUFMYBPjpRietDtqfR7Myf1peMioT52W+Pi03NGvflP4eFfZyfohtjJ5D9VtwWCdZgO8Tq9DQpLB1xKNLcreXni3kTQ8Un5oyHj8JBEXtms1jWFS3RX+GZzFi9P61bR46sSw= Received: by 10.35.66.13 with SMTP id t13mr14415657pyk; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.111.10 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37f72b1f0610162141o28ad6037s7b10cfc5b5f42d4f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:41:33 -0400 From: "Jim Capozzoli" To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Status of NX bit support X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:41:43 -0000 I know this topic was covered 6 months ago, but I'm wondering if anything changed between now and then as far as the status of the NX bit goes? If it hasn't changed, then why? If every other OS has support for the NX bit, then why doesn't freebsd? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-April/007931.html -- Jim Capozzoli