On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:05 -0500, Jesse D. McDonald wrote: > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 18:07, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > This is my point. The PCI driver may not KNOW about all the legacy > > ports. And why should it need to? Does it need to know about every > > legacy port for every ISA device ever made? > > This appears to be the primary point of contention for at least one version > of > this thread, but the resolution is simple. In no case would an untrusted > device driver loaded by the user be granted free access to either the PCI bus > (or any device thereon, given their DMA capabilities) or the system I/O > space.
Good. Then we are done, because this is basically the universal set of all devices. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
