Re: My spin on the flash bios interface...

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:02:15 +0000


> We could mem-protect the flash region somewhere 'deeper down'
> in the kernel _and_ SysRq-protect it.

> This would also protect
> from people writing/insmodding their own version of the driver
> once they're hacked in as root.

Not really, modules can do anything the kernel can do. It does make it
more difficult if the module has to hack through an unexported interface
though.

-- Jamie

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