From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752035AbWG1Q1l (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbWG1Q1l (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:41 -0400 Received: from a222036.upc-a.chello.nl ([62.163.222.36]:19616 "EHLO laptopd505.fenrus.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbWG1Q1k (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature From: Arjan van de Ven To: Daniel Walker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de In-Reply-To: <1154103895.18669.5.camel@c-67-188-28-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> References: <1154102546.6416.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1154102627.6416.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1154103895.18669.5.camel@c-67-188-28-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:27:28 +0200 Message-Id: <1154104048.6416.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:24 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 18:03 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > --- > > arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) > > Could this be supported on more than just x86_64, it seems fairly > generic ? I won't rule anything out, but for some it'll be impossible (such as i386). It'll depend on the exact architecture I suppose.. for x86_64 a gcc patch was needed (which took MONTHS to get in), I don't know how ppc and such deal with this, I'll be talking to the respective maintainers about this in the near future.... but I would not call it "fairly generic".