Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:10:21 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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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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