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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 10:23:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com, fygrave@tigerteam.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: io ports reading/writing
Message-ID:  <199905051423.KAA09357@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> ~ The access control for io ports is controlled by the file-system
> ~ permissions on /dev/io. In a standard setup, only root can access this
> ~ device.
> ~ 
> 
>  yes. But I was refering to linux scheme, where you can set the port-range,
> so the code wouldn't make any unintentional damage. (like if you're working
> with cmos you could only permit 0x70/0x71 ports, so even if code goes nuts,
> your disks will be safe). This is basically programmer's problem of course,
> but the feature is very handy.
> 
We have this level of io permission control, through the i386_g/set_ioperm
syscalls (man 2 i386_get_ioperm). You will need to enable kernel option VM86
to use them.

-lq


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