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SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
On 28 Mar 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > > But the Xserver isn't running in the kernel mode.
> >
> > I may have missed something, but the difference between iopl 3 and "kernel
> > mode" is...?
>
> Huge. IOPL 3 is just user mode with full access to the hardware, but
> not, for example, to kernel memory.

Ooops, how forgetful. I forgot about cpl...

Matthew.


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