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On 19 Jul 2007 at 8:39, Brad Plant wrote: |
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> That is certainly understandable. I have never done any kernel |
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> programming either. My understanding is (or rathing I am hoping) that |
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> when paravirt_ops gets merged into mainline (looks like this happened |
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> in the last couple of days), the PaX/grsecurity patch will apply |
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> cleanly and work together in harmony. We will also be able to run more |
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> recent kernels instead of only 2.6.18. |
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paravirt was merged in 2.6.20 or so and PaX was updated to work with it, |
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it actually runs as a paravirt/vmi kernel under vmware 6 (albeit some |
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features are just not compatible). and .23 will probably get Xen as well |
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bringing the corresponding PaX update with it. |
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