Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:43:38 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, Michael Petry <petry@netwolf.NetMasters.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continquous Memory vs Virtual Memory Message-ID: <199703212143.OAA25231@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:37:26 PST." <199703212137.NAA01992@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi, > The current "risc" programs in the bt848 driver makes it difficult for > people to screw up their systems . Granted , the PCI to PCI scheme > still leaves a nice way for someone to pass an illegal address; are there security issues here, ie could some clever programmer write to the kernel/other program space by cleverly building a RISC program with the address of memory other than the expected target video card? -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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