On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Oh, and there is still one very bad thing, which
> is that we can't open the high ports in a fast
> mode (or can we?), so sometimes it works even
> slower than xdos... why ioperm() doesn't allow
>  >0x3ff ports?..

Once upon a time Linus decided that a 128 byte per-process i/o bitmap is
ok, but 8192 bytes is excessively large.

see also iopl(2)

Bart

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