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Subject: Re: NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)
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On 2003-08-02 00:20 +0200, Thorsten Greiner wrote:
> * Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [2003-08-02 00:06]:
> > I think the bug was in the old code allowing this to
> > happen...
> 
> Well, than someone should tell that to NVidia. Their driver is
> closed source and comes without "user servicable parts".
> 
> Regards
>         -Thorsten
> 

That's going to be a lot easier to get through if someone can confirm
whether 0-16 are reserved, or whether (like julian says), 6-15 are
actually safe and something else is being clobbered.

-- 
Munish Chopra