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Subject: Re: Using inb() and outb()
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On 05/22/12 17:09, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 14:25, Thomas D. Dean<tomdean@speakeasy.org>  wrote:
>> On 05/22/12 14:08, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>
>> That is what I thought.
>>
>> The entire operation will have to run as root.  Nothing will be non-root.
>
> Can you make a SUID helper which only does the inb/outb operations as root?
>

I am planing to move the higher level functions to a driver.

I really want a userland interface to the process.

Tom Dean