Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751158AbWIMUC1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:02:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbWIMUC1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:02:27 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:22954 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158AbWIMUC0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:02:26 -0400 Message-ID: <450863CA.3000005@goop.org> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:02:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060907) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" , Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michael A Fetterman Subject: Re: Assignment of GDT entries References: <450854F3.20603@goop.org> <1158175001.3054.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1158177647.16902.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1158177647.16902.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 20 Alan Cox wrote: > 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. > Do you mean descriptor entry 8? Because that's TLS #3, not reserved... J - 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/