On 10/30/07, Bai Shuwei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone > As we know, the program on the X86 can run on the differnt ring(0, 1, 2, > 3) and the linux kernel run in the ring 0 and user program in the ring 3. > And now I want to know wether there is a simple mechanism on the PowerPC > architecture? thx all!
Powerpc has 2 privilege levels; user and supervisor. The kernel runs in supervisor mode, and user-space runs in user mode. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
