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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:59:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        toposoph-space@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: %fs, %gs and ldt
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403080858290.5881-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040308135533.28705.qmail@web12405.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 toposoph-space@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any version of ABI which specifies %fs, %gs and ldt usage on
> ia32 for *nix? Or any FreeBSD specification? I see that Nvidia driver
> uses them, that there is some compatibility with Linux, that FreeBSD
> kernel did not save %gs on context switch recently and not does %gs
> processing, etc., etc. But I can not find what is the general idea of
> using those things or what is intend for future usage.
> Thank you in advance for any info,

See http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/tls.pdf

We're working towards adopting that by 5.3-release.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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