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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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