Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:35:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch |
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, James Bottomley wrote:
> I fixed this as part of my cleanups, but it doesn't actually make a > difference to the voyagers. What kills them is either gdt not 8 bytes > aligned in setup.S or %cs above about 0x30 when going from real to > protected mode (once in protected mode, it will happily accept arbitrary > descriptor values).
the later we cannot fix sensibly, it introduces a dependency on our main GDT. And it's good to have a small GDT in the boot sector anyway - so your patch definitely looks good to me.
Ingo
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