Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Message-ID: <199811200035.RAA21200@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981118121441.009818d0@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 18, 98 12:14:41 pm
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> >But as SEF notes, a call gate gan go to any address in any ring, > >but an Interrupt can't, so using an interrupt makes for slower > >emulation. > > We can point an interrupt to a call gate and achieve this effect, can't we? If the target is in a different VM, yes; otherwise, no. 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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