Re: [patch] tls-2.5.31-C3

Alan Cox
2002-08-12T09:09:39Z

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 11:49, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> but, couldnt APM use its own private GDT for real-mode calls, with 0x40
> filled in properly? That would pretty much decouple things.

That would get extremely messy when handing interrupts arriving while in
an APM bios call (which is required on many laptops). I believe the 0x40
= 0x40 assumption is identical across windows, buggy apm, buggy bios32,
buggy edd, buggy .. (you get the picture)