Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261321AbUCZGxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:53:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261726AbUCZGxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:53:11 -0500 Received: from fe6-cox.cox-internet.com ([66.76.2.51]:42638 "EHLO fe6.cox-internet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261321AbUCZGxJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:53:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4063D30C.30305@cox-internet.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:51:56 -0600 From: billy rose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: torvalds@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: arch 386 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 19 i sent an email last night, but i think my email host was down so i will try again. since 2.6.x can preempt, what do you think about using a call gate in place of int 80? sysenter was implemented in this fashion for p4's, but there are a lot of pre p4 boxes still out there. operations that will not allow for a conforming code segment could simply turn around and issue the int 80, or use a task gate. ===== Billy "There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad... And there is goes..." --Bobby - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/