[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] Disable the code that allocates W|X memory on OpenBSD

Philip Guenther pguenther at proofpoint.com
Thu Sep 8 18:20:58 UTC 2016


On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:57:44PM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
...
> > For a long while the intent has been to use --enable-glx-tls by
> > default and kill off the other codepaths. But with the write xor
> > execute policy, it's going to be (close to) impossible.
> 
> Full tls support is not in the OpenBSD tree currently, though the
> remaining parts were being looked at including enabling tls with Mesa
> last week.  I'm not sure what state that work is in currently.

It's pretty close; I'm sure OpenBSD 6.1 will have TLS support enabled for 
i386, amd64, and sparc64, which are the three Mesa is interested in, I 
believe.


Philip


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