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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for OpenBSD

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for OpenBSD
From: "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:25:11 +0200
Cc: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wednesday 18 October 2006 18:27, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 18/10/06 17:17, "Anil Madhavapeddy" <anil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I applied your second patch, but not the third (SSP/ProPolice) one
> >> as I
> >> don't understand why it's needed. If there's some extra magic in
> >> OpenBSD's
> >> gcc, I hope there is a flag we can specify to turn it off for the
> >> hypervisor
> >> itself.
> >
> > It's enabled by default in OpenBSD's modified gcc-3.3.5, turn it off
> > with CFLAGS+= -fno-stack-protector
>
> We have that already in arch/x86/Rules.mk. If that was working, I doubt
> Christoph would have gone to the trouble of hacking up the SSP goop.

I did this work in August. There wasn't anything SSP-related there. So
without SSP support, I got into linking errors.
Now that the work is done, why shouldn't it go in?



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