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SubjectRe: I/O permissions for V86 tasks (Enhanced V86 Mode)?
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"Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com> writes:
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> 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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