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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212161215550.25780-100000@xanadu.home> you wrote:
> 
> Fortunately on ARM the kernel seems to be sane with .text and .rodata 
> actually being read-only.

Well, on PowerPC the .text and .rodata is read-only, too (normally) -
but only after the patching took place :-(


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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