OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode. - +It also runs on processors made by other manufacturers which have cloned +the AMD64 extensions. (Some Intel processors lack support for important +PAE NX bit, which means those machines will run without any W^X support -- +it is thus safer to run those machines in i386 mode).
-It also runs on the Intel ia32e processors which contain cloned -support for the AMD64 extensions, but since Intel left out support for -the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute) there is no W^X support on the Intel -CPUs. - -
Note that OpenBSD/i386 also runs on these
processors, but in 32-bit mode.
@@ -1711,7 +1708,7 @@
www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: amd64.html,v 1.181 2007/12/05 14:36:04 jmc Exp $
+$OpenBSD: amd64.html,v 1.182 2007/12/15 19:42:59 deraadt Exp $