Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:57:01 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 |
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On Dec 14 2006 18:17, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: >> >> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my. > >To be honest, I never really understood where kernel space starts and user space >ends in Windows, so I'm not sure about this :-)
Well, in Windows 95/98 you could do inportb (inb) and friends from "userspace" without an extra kernel driver. Maybe it just always ran in kernelspace, explains why many say 95/98 was less stable than the NT-based versions.
-`J' --
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