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Re: [MiNT] kernel 1.15.10b fragmentation



Hello!

> F_OS_SPECIAL does not seem to be terribly well documented (at least I didn't
> find it when grep:ing through the docs, but there was some comments in the
> sources), but from what I could see it grants others supervisor access to
> the memory space of the process that has it set. At least for an AES, that
> seems like a huge unnecessary risk (but it is of course necessary if the
> AES is also called in user context).

As far as I can say this F_OS_SPECIAL thing is a real bad hack in the
kernel that complicate lot of things.

> IMO, the current way _is_ the correct one, under the limitations that
> the AES specification (and the MiNT implementation) sets.

What limitations sets the MiNT kernel?


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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