From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.202.64]:48037 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:07:37 +0000 Received: from gentoo.org (pcp04939029pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.48.72.58]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20040309060732016004je32e> (Authid: kumba12345); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:07:32 +0000 Message-ID: <404D6008.9060900@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 01:11:20 -0500 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: 2.4 kernels + >=binutils-2.14.90.0.8 References: <404D0132.3020202@gentoo.org> <20040308234450.GF16163@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> <404D0A18.6050802@gentoo.org> <20040309003447.GH16163@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> <404D1909.1020005@gentoo.org> <20040309040919.GA11345@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20040309040919.GA11345@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4515 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > PAX can't be fully supported on MIPS anyway; the architecture doesn't > have a no-exec flag in it's pages. > > PAX docs are bullshit btw. execution proection doesn't require a split TLB > and anyway, the MIPS uTLBs are split. > > Ralf I'm aware of the inability to fully support PaX on mips. It does give some support, mainly in the Address Space Layout Randomization bit, so it's better than nothing, imho. The binutils patch for this support in gentoo isn't targetted at mips anyways, it's applied for all the supported architectures. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond