From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PnP BIOS driver status
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:51:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C896A97.7DA21DF9@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16jW9m-0008NH-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > The GDT descriptors are private to the PNP BIOS and constant values once
> > > set up. No PnPBIOS call is made before the configuration is done.
> > >
> > > Seems ok to me - or am I missing something ?
> >
> > Two user processes calling functions through /proc...
>
> The GDT descriptors are set up before /proc comes into being. I'm checking
> 2.4 code here - has someone left old stuff in 2.5 ?
PNP_TS1 and PNP_TS2 are changed on every call to the bios to point to
where the data for the 32-bit code lives.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-09 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-08 23:00 PnP BIOS driver status Thomas Hood
2002-03-08 23:14 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-09 0:43 ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 1:00 ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09 1:10 ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 2:23 ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09 3:02 ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 1:25 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09 1:37 ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-09 2:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09 1:51 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2002-03-09 2:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09 2:24 ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 2:48 ` Thomas Hood
2002-03-09 14:44 ` Thomas Hood
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2002-03-09 15:11 Thomas Hood
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