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From: atoth@××××××××××.hu
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened and 64bit
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:04:31
Message-Id: 4479.138.26.140.46.1184852434.squirrel@atoth.sote.hu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened and 64bit by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 Xen has been merged recently.
2 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5cc97bf2d8eaa6cab60727c3eba3e85e29062669
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4 Regards,
5 Dw.
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8 dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus Szakorvos jelölt, 06-20-825-8057, 06-30-5962-962
9 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist in Training, +36-20-825-8057, +36-30-5962-962
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11 On Csü, Július 19, 2007 01:23, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
12 > On 19 Jul 2007 at 8:39, Brad Plant wrote:
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14 >> That is certainly understandable. I have never done any kernel
15 >> programming either. My understanding is (or rathing I am hoping) that
16 >> when paravirt_ops gets merged into mainline (looks like this happened
17 >> in the last couple of days), the PaX/grsecurity patch will apply
18 >> cleanly and work together in harmony. We will also be able to run more
19 >> recent kernels instead of only 2.6.18.
20 >
21 > paravirt was merged in 2.6.20 or so and PaX was updated to work with it,
22 > it actually runs as a paravirt/vmi kernel under vmware 6 (albeit some
23 > features are just not compatible). and .23 will probably get Xen as well
24 > bringing the corresponding PaX update with it.
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