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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