>>>>> "Vidiot" == Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Vidiot> In any event, it is nice to know the cause. Actually, I
Vidiot> don't know the cause, only the piece affected. What changed
Vidiot> in the compiler to cause ioport.c not to work with the 2.8.1
Vidiot> compiler?
The ioperm() call implementation in the kernel used a hack to modify
the system flags. This gets optimised out by GCC 2.8. The solution
is to make the kernel do it "properly". Thre probably isn't a speed
difference between the two methods.
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