On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Christian Biere wrote: > Also what about the NX-bit? Is that available or used by NetBSD in > 32-bit mode? The NX bit (per AMD; "XD bit" per Intel :-) is available in 32-bit mode and can be used by Windows, at least. I don't know whether NetBSD uses that CPU capability in any mode... -- -Chuck