Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: I/O permissions for V86 tasks (Enhanced V86 Mode)? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 17 Jul 1998 12:55:49 +0200 |
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"Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com> writes: > > Does anyone know any details of this, and if this has been looked > into for the V86 mode support in Linux? I am going to hunt through my > old issues to see if I can find the articles in question, and if the > info is enough I will try to hack the support for this into my kernel > sources. This would be the ideal solution if it would work, since > then we don't have to do anything special to get full I/O access for > V86 tasks (and I am sure this will make the DOSEMU crowd happier).
See http://www.x86.org/ddj/Jan98/Jan98.html and http://www.x86.org/ddj/Mar98/Mar98.html This will probably break on Cyrix/AMD/Centaur though, so it would be nice to have a fallback solution that works on all x86 cpus.
-Andi
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