Re: 2.2.0p7: fix to ioperm() ranges also needed

Bill Currie (bill@taniwha.tssc.co.nz)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:14:40 +1300

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

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