Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-27T04:23:21Z

WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> writes:

>
> Thanks for your point.
> I know little about virtualization, maybe can't help much. But I am interested
> in other things you mentioned. AFAIK, segments can't be avoided on i386, and
> Linux uses them very little, how are they recalculated constantly?

Look in arch/i386/boot/setup.S it runs in 16bit mode. We are talking about
real mode segments not 16bit segments.

16bit real mode is a completely different ball game, and why we keep BIOS
calls isolated to that one dinky file.

Eric