From owner-cvs-sys Sun Apr 6 23:55:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA26370 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA26362; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA05525; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:24:52 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704070654.QAA05525@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c machdep.c trap.c src/sys/i386/include pcb.h In-Reply-To: <199704070645.XAA26063@freefall.freebsd.org> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 6, 97 11:45:20 pm" To: peter@freefall.freebsd.org (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:24:52 +0930 (CST) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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( ) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[