Subject: Re: some questions
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org, port-xen@netbsd.org,>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/2006 20:39:45
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