--- kernel-bigsur-ref/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c	Tue Sep 25 19:40:29 2001
+++ kernel-bigsur/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c	Sun Oct 14 10:36:59 2001
@@ -135,10 +135,11 @@
 	/*
 	 * Setup GDTD.  Note: GDTD is the descrambled version of the pseudo-descriptor
 	 * format defined by Figure 3-11 "Pseudo-Descriptor Format" in the IA-32
-	 * architecture manual.
+	 * architecture manual.  Also note that the only fields that are not
+	 * ignored are `base', `limit', 'G', `P' (must be 1) and `S' (must be 0)
 	 */
-	regs->r31 = IA32_SEG_UNSCRAMBLE(IA32_SEG_DESCRIPTOR(IA32_GDT_OFFSET, IA32_PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0,
-							    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
+	regs->r31 = IA32_SEG_UNSCRAMBLE(IA32_SEG_DESCRIPTOR(IA32_GDT_OFFSET,
+			IA32_PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0));
 
 	ia64_psr(regs)->ac = 0;		/* turn off alignment checking */
 	regs->loadrs = 0;