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   wolfgang kern to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: This newsgroup.   
   25 Mar 23 09:34:36   
   
   From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 25/03/2023 08:10, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >> use any privileged instruction for a PL0 test, there are many,   
   >> look for ones that wont cause any trouble if succeed.   
   > Ok, that's a good idea.   
   > So using the 2 executables I gave you, you can do:   
   > 1. privileged instruction followed by loop   
   > 2. privileged instruction followed by ret   
      
   Not me. I already said that I still collect info.   
   until I get a pristine clear picture of the whole story.   
      
   why you don't get it: _I can't/wont use your files_   
      
   I have only one working and eleven dead PCs here,   
   and I need this one for posting and currently for games.   
      
   So you can do this tests and report what you found.   
      
   > and if they behave differently - in fact, identically to   
   > what I sent - then you will have the ring 0 answer   
   > for at least one PC.   
   >   
   > Otherwise you will need to find the appropriate UEFI   
   > call. You seem to be doing that already (ie reading   
   > the (presumably copyrighted) documentation), which   
   > is a more robust way of doing things. That's where the   
   > contract exists between you and the computer.   
   >   
   > I will refer to such documentation at the point where   
   > someone claims my existing code is non-compliant   
   > and points me to chapter and verse.   
      
   Yeah, this UEFI.org docs are as weird or even more than C is.   
   may take me a while to navigate through that and convert all   
   into human readable patterns (make it a sandpile.org format)   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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