[grsec] Re: Bad EIP Value on Athalon 700

[pageexec at freemail.hu]

> I think what may have happened is I took the grsec portion of some
> .config, appended it to the stock .config, then configured my kernel,
> leaving PCI access method as "Any".
> 
> I'm nearly positive that I did not explicitly select PCI_BIOS. Is it
> enabled automatically when you select method "Any"?

yes, 'any' enables both the BIOS and the direct access methods (but
then KERNEXEC gets disabled, at least when things work as intended ;-).