Re: [PATCH] Whinge in paging_init if noexec is on with a non-PAEkernel

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 21:38 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On second thought, this is probably better since most people will
> presumably be booting non-PAE kernels, generating this message when
> they've not tried to force the issue seems silly.


why not go the simple way, and just remove noexec=on entirely?
If your cpu can use NX, it'll get used automatically, and if not, it
won't. There's never any use for passing noexec=on .. at all since it
has no effect whatsoever.


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