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From: Ivan Kelly <ivan@ivankelly.net>
Subject: Re: Guest OS without paging
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:31:07 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:19:10PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Out of interest, what exactly does it do with segmentation?  Most CPUs don't 
> have segmentation hardware at all...  I can imagine ways they might have 
> overlaid it on the flat memory model without affective other ports though...  
> Task isolation?  Kernel / user protection?
I haven't looked too deeply into the segmentation, but it's using a GDT so it
is doing something with it. I'll update you when i find out more.
Regards
Ivan