Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:55:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990707235400.24590C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <86oghnr62j.fsf@not.demophon.com>
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yeah I remembered how it all worked after I wrote that.. You'd think they'd eventually get the idea of letting the kernel have it's own 'cr3' and some TLBs eh? listenning intel? On 8 Jul 1999, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > > > we already use the gs register for SMP now.. > > what about the fs register? > > I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve > > this.... (%fs points to user space or something) > > You can't extend the address space that way, segments are all parts of > the single 4GB address space described by the page mapping. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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