Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDT entries - Proposed change Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981226152751.17849B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199812260504.VAA29295@apollo.backplane.com>
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I think there is enough already running that it SHOULD be committed. On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :I have a patch for sys/i386/include/segments.h and sys/i386/i386/machdep.c > :which changes LUDATA_SEL from 4 to 5 (why 5? Why not?) and provides for > :system call entries via LDT entry 4 (termed LSOL26CALLS_SEL at present). > :... > : > :Cheers, > : > : - mark > > Unless you think you'll have the solaris emulation done by the 3.0.1 > release, I would recommend waiting until the source tree split > before commiting this change. I can't think of any specific problems > that might occur but I don't think a month is long enough to test > something like this and while the direct LDT references are constrained > to a few files in i386, those files are pretty convoluted and it's > a pretty scary change to make. > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet > Communications & God knows what else. > <dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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