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On 27 Jan 2010 at 1:58, Dariem Pérez Herrera wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm new in this list. Let me introduce myself: my name is Dariem, and |
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> I'm part of a team that is trying to create a distro based on project |
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> Gentoo Hardened. We want to collaborate with you in everything we can. |
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> My first email will be about Virtualbox-OSE. I would like to know if |
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> there is any patch I can use to fix the problem with the inline asm |
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> using ebx register, but if it doesn't exist, I can try to create it |
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> myself and share it with you, I just don't want to duplicate efforts. |
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> Can you tell me what is the status of this issue? |
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while i haven't looked at the non-PIC in vbox, i can tell you that it's |
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only the tip of the iceberg, there're much more difficult problems there. |
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in particular, the kernel drivers are not compatible with PaX currently |
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and fixing them is anything but trivial (see http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/941 |
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and their in-house ring-0 module loader code among others). |
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