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SubjectRe: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> >
> > Wine is in a really difficult position (due to the complex task it
> > achieves) and is more sensitive to VM layout changes than other
> > applications. So lets try to find the solution that preserves the
>
> More ELF headers bits are not really hard to add.

Actually I think the cleanest thing at this point, and it was discussed
earlier is for the wine binary to have an ELF segment that is all bss
in the first 1GB. If the kernel loader can't cope we should fix that
before we start adding new ELF bits.

Wine can then mmap over it as it sees fit.

Eric
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