Re: Drivers, Hardware, and their relationship to Bagels.

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:01:52 +0200 (SAST)


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Myrddin Ambrosius wrote:

> If you can blithely ignore restrictions placed by the
> kernel on some piece of hardware, and access it
> directly, then surely this would apply to any
> hardware. Including disk drives, RAM, etc.

iopl(2), chmod(1) and friends, hardware frobbing isn't a free for all.
Then again if you're root...

Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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