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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
>  - keep the TLS entries contiguous, and make sure that segment 0040 (ie
>    GDT entry #8) is available to a TLS entry, since if I remember
>    correctly, that one is also magical for old Windows binaries for all
>    the wrong reasons (ie it was some system data area in DOS and in 
>    Windows 3.1)

segment 0040 is used by the APM driver to work around bugs in some BIOS
implementations where some (brain-dead) BIOS writer has assume that the
BIOS data area is still available in protected mode ...
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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