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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:22:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10308011919180.321-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308011614550.46065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps we need to rethink the interface and disallow specification
> > of any ldt; only allow dynamic.  We would need a different method of
> > setting an array of them, though.
> 
> I think that for now we can allow anything over 6 because we are not a
> BSDI binary.

That's a quick fix, yes.  But I still think we should put
things in place to disallow this and favor the dynamic
ldt creation.  I can only see it rearing its ugly head
at some point in the future when our thread libraries
get more widespread use.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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