On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:43:53AM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > So I was supposed to be working on making the JIT engine conform to W^X a > > few > > months ago. It took a bit longer than expected, but I had a mostly working > > patch. Then I disappeared from OpenBSD for a bit and took my patch with me. > > Last week I was just starting to feed that patch upstream to firefox, when I > > found out about another developer who had already done similar work. Sigh. > > > > The official firefox patch seems likely to ship in some future version, > > which > > is good news for everyone. It's quite similar to the patch I had (though > > more > > polished). To make it available sooner for OpenBSD, here's a backport to the > > Firefox in ports. > > > > I haven't been able to test this very much, as I'm still at BSDCan, but > > when I > > get back next week I hope to be able to devote more time to finalizing this > > patch. Posting now to let people know it's coming and to give a preview if > > you're interested. > > Hi! > > The official patch is now in. > > I don't know why it's enabled exclusively for iOS (maybe because it's > the only platform that has been thoroughly tested? Or because major > linux distros are not yet ready), probably Landry can shed some light > on this... > > Btw, my firefox-41.0.1 (rebuilt with the patch below) still hasn't > exploded during my tests: routinary browsing, GMail, Google Maps, > Twitter, etc... > > Comments? Opinions?
Bring this upstream first :) Landry
