Hi Josh,
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 3:35, Josh Triplett wrote:
On the vast majority of modern systems, no processes will use the
userspsace I/O syscalls, iopl and ioperm. Add a new config option,
CONFIG_X86_IOPORT, to support configuring them out of the kernel
entirely. Since these syscalls
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:04:42PM +0100, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 3:35, Josh Triplett wrote:
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -976,6 +976,16 @@ config VM86
XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
option
I/O from userspace is used to implement usermode virtio driver(s).
This has been done independently by Intel, Brocade/Vyatta, and 6Wind.
Sorry, it has to stay.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
On the vast majority of modern systems, no processes will
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Stephen Hemminger
step...@networkplumber.org wrote:
I/O from userspace is used to implement usermode virtio driver(s).
This has been done independently by Intel, Brocade/Vyatta, and 6Wind.
Sorry, it has to stay.
This isn't about removing it, it's about putting
On the vast majority of modern systems, no processes will use the
userspsace I/O syscalls, iopl and ioperm. Add a new config option,
CONFIG_X86_IOPORT, to support configuring them out of the kernel
entirely. Since these syscalls only exist to support rare legacy
userspace programs, X86_IOPORT
