Re: I/O permissions for V86 tasks (Enhanced V86 Mode)?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:56:20 +0100 (BST)


> 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).

The Dr Dobbs x86 undocumented stuff is mostly also on the rather neat
www.x86.org site.

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