I/O port protection

Adam Lackorzynski adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Thu Jan 11 22:57:08 CET 2007


Hi,

On Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 22:25:56 +0100, Daniel Vandersee wrote:
> is it possible to allow I/O page mapping at the RMGR for a newly created
> task (using l4_task_new) as it were possible using the "allow_cli" flag
> in the roottask configuration?
> Usually the pager of the newly created task would handle its I/O
> pagefaults. Unfortunately this won't work here as this particular task
> (L4 loader) tries to directly map I/O pages using an IPC call to the
> ressource manager.
> So the question is: How can I tell the ressource manager to allow I/O
> mapping for this particular task?

The loader can be configured to allow only specific ports for specific
applications. roottask just gives them out, so it already does this?!



Adam
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