Re: [patch] tls-2.5.30-A1

Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 04:43:43 +1000


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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