Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:14:40 +1300 | From | Bill Currie <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0p7: fix to ioperm() ranges also needed |
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Chris Evans wrote: > P.S. Offtopic. Can someome clarify for me the differences between iopl(1), > iopl(2) and iopl(3)? Thank you!
I don't know if iopl(1) and iopl(2) will cause any different behaviour in Linux as I believe it's just rings 0 and 3 that are used. However, you can interpret the iopl level as the maximum ring number that can use io.
Bill -- Leave others their otherness.
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