Vladimir responded:
>i'd say that the second piece of code is just a userspace program.
>Right ?
Well, normally, yes, but if its tickling device registers and it
doesn't run as root (no ioperm/iopl access), and for sure if it does
DMA or accesses device memory, then no. Maybe I should have used more
suitable name than "compute()" :)
--p
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