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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:24:52 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        peter@freefall.freebsd.org (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c trap.c src/sys/i386/include pcb.h
Message-ID:  <199704070654.QAA05525@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199704070645.XAA26063@freefall.freebsd.org> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 6, 97 11:45:20 pm"

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Peter Wemm stands accused of saying:
> peter       97/04/06 23:45:20
> 
>   Modified:    sys/i386/i386  genassym.c machdep.c trap.c
>                sys/i386/include  pcb.h
>   Log:
>   No longer use an i386tss as the basis of our pcb - it wasn't particularly
>   convenient and makes life difficult for my next commit.  We still need
>   an i386tss to point to for the tss slot in the gdt, so we use a common
>   tss shared between all processes.
...
>   This change makes VM86 mode harder, but the following commits will remove
>   a lot of constraints for the VM86 system, including the possibility of
>   extending the pcb for an IO port map etc.

Yay!  Have you looked at Jonathan's current vm86 code in preparation
for this?  (I haven't recently 8( )

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