From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 26 15:38:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13556 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13551; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:38:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA00886; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdDmZ884; Sat Dec 26 23:28:42 1998 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Matthew Dillon cc: Mark Newton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDT entries - Proposed change In-Reply-To: <199812260504.VAA29295@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think there is enough already running that it SHOULD be committed. On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message