Re: [WOLK-devel] Reply from PaX team

[Marc-Christian P. <m....@wo...>]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:07, GapLo Ip wrote:

Hi Gaplo,

> Seems the PaX team will not support RMAP.
bad bad bad :(

> The problem with -rmap is that adding PaX support to
> it is not a trivial exercise and since we're not using
> it, there's little motivation to spend time on it. On
> the other hand we'll eventually have to write a 2.6
> port at which point we'll have to face -rmap (i'd say
> that by the end of this year). Also, -rmap for 2.4
> exists both as a standalone patch and in the RedHat
> kernels which is not exactly the same - which one
> should be supported? At least for the RedHat version
> we believe that supporting a vendor kernel should
> better be done by the respective vendor itself, not
> us.
please tell them that RMAP in Redhat is RMAP standalone from Rik van Riel.

Anyway, thanks for asking the PaX team. I think the more users wants rmap 
support in PaX, we'll get it in the future (2.4)

ciao, Marc