Re: [PATCH v5 00/27] x86_64: Improvements at compressed kernel stage

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Currently I think the only shipping systems that implement
> NX-requirements are from Microsoft - the Surface product line and
> Windows Dev Kit - and they don't allow you to disable it at all.  Other
> vendors have produced firmware that isn't shipping yet (I *think*) that
> has it as a setting in the firmware menu, and they're looking to move to
> enabling it by default on some product lines.

I hope they realize that they must leave the off switch in the BIOS for
older kernels...

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    Boris.

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