woke up in a cold sweat and all i can remember from my nightmare is "there's a party in ring -2 and no one's invited"

Oh the ring -2 myth :)

@Pyjong '""myth"""

my dude

https://youtu.be/lR0nh-TdpVg

@Parzi uf that has 45 minutes man... cmon. Despite me not willing to view your source would you do us both a favor and look here please https://wiki.osdev.org/Global_Descr... look for "privl." . It has 2 bits that makes rings 0-3. Period. I have heard this -1 and -2 thing before, I have read the paper and it does not refer to an actual ring it just author's way of saying "runs unsupervised". I guess you can call it whatever you like though. And I can always point out it's not an actual ring.

@Parzi and sorry for being an asshole again :/

@Pyjong ok true but virtual rings that are still technically able to be laid out and defined in the same security model are still valid in my eyes

@Parzi mm thats kinda what I was on about because theyre not. It's really just a name used in that pdf. It doesnt use that hw mechanism for memory protection. It's really unfortunate naming.

But it surely helped that guys paper sell really well! curses :)