On 9/21/07, rwaite1@tampabay.rr.com  wrote:

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> EM64T is supposed to run on AMD64... and it appears that the Intel chips do support the NXE bit since around 2005.

> Can anyone confirm that the newer ia32e chips (made after early 2005) are actually supporting W^X? It seems that just because NXE is shown in the dmesg wouldn't necessarily mean that OpenBSD would then use it.

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You can lookup support for the Execution Disable Bit  for your

processor at http://processorfinder.intel.com/Default.aspx

For example http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL99W
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