On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 05:00, Vincent Danen wrote: > I've been subscribed to the list for a while and finally managed to catch > up on some of the mails on here. I'm looking to play with LSM a little, > but my security "work" machine is an ibook (thus PPC), and I don't see any > PPC support in the LSM patch (I see a little IA64 and x86). > > Is there no work being done on LSM for PPC? I'm not a bigtime kernel > hacker or anything, but I like playing... =) I'm thinking of trying to > port the x86 part of the patch to apply against the PPC kernel, but if > there is something like an incompatability with LSM and PPC, I'm probably > not the best person to resolve it. =) Looks like there needs to be a patch to arch/ppc/config.in to do the following: source security/Config.in Then there needs to be a patch for arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S for a system call number for sys_security (number 209?). Then there's sys_iopl() (as previously discussed on this list) and sys_ptrace() support. It doesn't look that difficult by kernel coding standards... -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the From field. _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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