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Re: some questions



On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:18:12PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:54:55AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > int
> > i386_iopl(l, args, retval)
> > {
> > [...]
> >     if (securelevel > 1)
> 
> Securelevel > 1?  That test should be securelevel >= 1.  It's a serious
> bug if it's not.

Without it, the "aperture" driver won't be useful at securelevel 1 (at
least if X need access to I/O space, which they probably do). Since the
aperture driver exists for a long time, I would call it a known feature.

Pavel Cahyna



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