Re: hardened and 64bit

On 19 Jul 2007 at 8:39, Brad Plant wrote:

> That is certainly understandable. I have never done any
kernel
> programming either. My understanding is (or rathing I
am hoping) that
> when paravirt_ops gets merged into mainline (looks like
this happened
> in the last couple of days), the PaX/grsecurity patch
will apply
> cleanly and work together in harmony. We will also be
able to run more
> recent kernels instead of only 2.6.18. 

paravirt was merged in 2.6.20 or so and PaX was updated to
work with it,
it actually runs as a paravirt/vmi kernel under vmware 6
(albeit some
features are just not compatible). and .23 will probably get
Xen as well
bringing the corresponding PaX update with it.

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Xen has been merged recently.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5cc97bf2d8eaa6cab60727c3eba3e85e29062669


Regards,
Dw.

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On Csü, Július 19, 2007 01:23, pageexecfreemail.hu wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2007 at 8:39, Brad Plant wrote:
>
>> That is certainly understandable. I have never done
any kernel
>> programming either. My understanding is (or rathing
I am hoping) that
>> when paravirt_ops gets merged into mainline (looks
like this happened
>> in the last couple of days), the PaX/grsecurity
patch will apply
>> cleanly and work together in harmony. We will also
be able to run more
>> recent kernels instead of only 2.6.18.
>
> paravirt was merged in 2.6.20 or so and PaX was updated
to work with it,
> it actually runs as a paravirt/vmi kernel under vmware
6 (albeit some
> features are just not compatible). and .23 will
probably get Xen as well
> bringing the corresponding PaX update with it.
>
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