From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 17 12:23:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06821 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06816 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11797; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:07:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd011709; Tue Nov 17 11:06:54 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03809; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:06:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811171806.LAA03809@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:06:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981117125202.00916bb0@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 17, 98 12:52:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >interrupt rather than a far call is also just a more "natural" way to > > I've not looked upon interrupts beyond hardware handling, but I seem to > recall call gates being preferrable for isolation reasons, but I'm not > sure, so don't flame me if I'm wrong ;) Actually, you can swap the same stuff as a result of an interrupt; see: Protected Mode Software Architecture Tom Shanley MindShare, Inc. ISBN: 0-201-55447-X Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message