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SubjectRe: Announce: ndiswrapper
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1031120174823.11021B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
By author: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm curious if the NDIS stuff could be run in ring 1 or 2, being an old
> MULTICS guy. Not for political reasons, just good tech.
>

Unfortunately the segmentation and paging were so poorly integrated in
i386 that rings 1-2 are pretty much totally useless.

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