Gerard Gerritsen wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> No.  Only 16-bit segments may have IOPL privilege.

 GG> Any idea why ?

IOPL access is considered obsolete, and IBM wanted to discourage its use
from 32-bit programs in order to promote portability to OS/2 for the Power
PC and other non-Intel platforms.  However, the real problem is that 32-bit
programs are almost always written in "flat" model, where all
code is mapped by a single selector in the LDT.
 
-- Mike


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