From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 19 16:36:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16810 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:36:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16802 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29745; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:36:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd029605; Thu Nov 19 17:36:18 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21200; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:35:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811200035.RAA21200@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981118121441.009818d0@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 18, 98 12:14:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >But as SEF notes, a call gate gan go to any address in any ring, > >but an Interrupt can't, so using an interrupt makes for slower > >emulation. > > We can point an interrupt to a call gate and achieve this effect, can't we? If the target is in a different VM, yes; otherwise, no. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message