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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
cc: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: LDT entries - Proposed change
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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.
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