Subject: Re: some questions
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/07/2006 08:59:38
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:44:50AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:14:49AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > Why?
> >
> > if you have root in a domU, you don't need a kernel bug to use DMA, which
> > opens the door to dom0.
>
> How do you get access to the DMA register if you don't take control over
> the kernel ?
i386_iopl ?
Pavel Cahyna