Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156AbWIMTiy (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:38:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbWIMTiy (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:38:54 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:56028 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbWIMTix (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:38:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Assignment of GDT entries From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" , Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michael A Fetterman In-Reply-To: <1158175001.3054.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <450854F3.20603@goop.org> <1158175001.3054.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:00:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1158177647.16902.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 15 Ar Mer, 2006-09-13 am 21:16 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > I don't know the exact details on these; I do know that several GDT > entries tend to be used by BIOSes in their APM implementations and thus > are better of not being used. Thats 0x40 which tends to get used as if was a real mode base for BIOS accesses even via the protected mode interface. Alan - 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/