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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julliard@winehq.com,
	ldb@ldb.ods.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tls-2.5.30-A1
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 04:43:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808044343.4e48268c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208071115290.4961-100000@home.transmeta.com>

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/

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-07 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07 18:10 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-07 18:43   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2002-08-07 18:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-07 19:40       ` Alexandre Julliard
2002-08-07 19:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 19:49     ` Alexandre Julliard
2002-08-07 22:01   ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 22:36   ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-07 22:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 23:21       ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-07 23:35         ` DMA Problems with Intel 845 Chipset and Northwood CPU Mark Cuss
2002-08-08  0:58           ` John L. Korpi
2002-08-08 16:12             ` Mark Cuss
2002-08-11 21:46   ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-C3 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12  7:34     ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-08-12 10:07       ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12  8:23         ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-08-12 10:08           ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 10:49             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 10:34               ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 12:17                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 11:47                   ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 12:55                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 12:29                       ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 10:35               ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 13:10             ` Kasper Dupont
2002-08-12 15:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 14:46         ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-08-12 12:18     ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-12 15:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 13:43         ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-12 15:57           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 14:17             ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-12 15:53     ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D3 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 16:13       ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D4 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 14:32         ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-12 17:06         ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D5 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 15:21           ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-08-12 17:41             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 15:54               ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-12 18:03               ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D9 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13  1:50               ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D5 Alexandre Julliard
2002-08-12 17:24           ` [patch] tls-2.5.31-D7 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-12 15:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-07 19:02 ` [patch] tls-2.5.30-A1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-08 12:25 ` Jamie Lokier

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