Gilboa Davara wrote: > Actually the message will only get displayed on i386 kernels, not on > x86_64 kernels (running on both AMD and Intel platforms) > I'd assume that the reasoning for dropping the printk's on x86_64 is > simple: > NX on i386 is pretty much limited to rather recent machines; all/most > pure i386 CPU core do not support it. OTOH, most x86_64 CPU core support > NX out of the box. > To cut a long story short... if you're on x86_64, you most likely have > NX. No need to say/display/printk anything about it. Actually, NX on x86_64 *predates* i386 NX support: http://lwn.net/Articles/87814/. So the message was added on the platform which could benefit from the message, and it was never ported back to x86_64. James. -- E-mail address: james | "I would like to apologise to the relatives of the fan @westexe.demon.co.uk | who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. | I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of | signing and did not mean to kill and eat him." | -- Terry Pratchett.
