From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 25 21:04:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02290 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02273; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA29295; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:04:04 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812260504.VAA29295@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mark Newton Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDT entries - Proposed change Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I have a patch for sys/i386/include/segments.h and sys/i386/i386/machdep.c :which changes LUDATA_SEL from 4 to 5 (why 5? Why not?) and provides for :system call entries via LDT entry 4 (termed LSOL26CALLS_SEL at present). :... : :Cheers, : : - mark Unless you think you'll have the solaris emulation done by the 3.0.1 release, I would recommend waiting until the source tree split before commiting this change. I can't think of any specific problems that might occur but I don't think a month is long enough to test something like this and while the direct LDT references are constrained to a few files in i386, those files are pretty convoluted and it's a pretty scary change to make. -Matt Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications & God knows what else. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message