From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 14 11:32:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09445 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-35-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09282 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 11:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA21677; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:29:08 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811141929.VAA21677@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model In-Reply-To: <199811141904.LAA06709@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Nov 14, 98 11:04:28 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:29:04 +0200 (SAT) Cc: ru@ucb.crimea.ua, rnordier@nordier.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] 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 Mike Smith wrote: > No, it doesn't. You can either upgrade to a newer assembler, or > do it the "old" way: > > #define LCALL(x,y) .byte 0x9a ; .long y; .word x > > Note that on 3.0 systems we use int 0x80 for kernel entry, as it's > faster. Though int 0x80 is also valid for older releases of FreeBSD, including 2.2.x. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message