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Subject: Re: PnP BIOS driver status
To: bgerst@didntduck.org (Brian Gerst)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:26:05 +0000 (GMT)
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> > The GDT descriptors are set up before /proc comes into being. I'm checking
> > 2.4 code here - has someone left old stuff in 2.5 ?
> 
> PNP_TS1 and PNP_TS2 are changed on every call to the bios to point to
> where the data for the 32-bit code lives.

Got you - yes Thomas he's absolutely right. The lock needs to be taken
by the callers before they set the PNP_TS* entries. 

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