Subject: Re: Importing PaX features to NetBSD
To: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/18/2005 04:27:09
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:04:35PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> > Some architectures (powerpc) have ABIs that mandate executable bss/data.
> > There is no way to turn that off.
>
> True, but two things:
>
> 1. How many of our users run i386, amd64, sparc, sparc64? how many of
> them run powerpc?
In general we don't count the number of users of a given arch before
looking at a feature and it's costs. Things need to fit into a cross
architecture framework that don't negatively impact other archs.
If you want that, there are other *BSD distributions aimed at "best
performance for the x86 arch" or other such goals...
James