Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:06:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Message-ID: <199811171806.LAA03809@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981117125202.00916bb0@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 17, 98 12:52:02 pm
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> >interrupt rather than a far call is also just a more "natural" way to > > I've not looked upon interrupts beyond hardware handling, but I seem to > recall call gates being preferrable for isolation reasons, but I'm not > sure, so don't flame me if I'm wrong ;) Actually, you can swap the same stuff as a result of an interrupt; see: Protected Mode Software Architecture Tom Shanley MindShare, Inc. ISBN: 0-201-55447-X Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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