Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751187AbWIMVNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:13:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751202AbWIMVNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:13:08 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:10397 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751187AbWIMVNG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:13:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Assignment of GDT entries From: Alan Cox To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michael A Fetterman In-Reply-To: <4508711B.6060905@vmware.com> References: <450854F3.20603@goop.org> <1158175001.3054.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4508681E.3070708@goop.org> <4508711B.6060905@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:35:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1158183322.16902.8.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: 679 Lines: 15 Ar Mer, 2006-09-13 am 13:59 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden: > TLS #3 overlaps BIOS 0x40, but code which calls borken APM / PnP BIOS > and sets up protected mode 0x40 GDT segment does so by swapping out the > TLS segment with the identity simulation of physical 0x400 offset, > swapping it back afterwards. Short of bugs in that code (which there > are, btw), you shouldn't need to be concerned with it. Care to elucidate ? - 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/