Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move SWAP option in menu | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 Mar 2003 12:41:12 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:03, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Linux 8086 can swap because it can use CS/DS updates to relocate code/data. > > Unless I miss a subtle trick, that's using the segment registers as a > poor man's MMU. You can share library code with far calls but you can't > use "far" data pointers, can you?
Linux 8086 doesnt support "far" anything. The segment registers are being used as base registers, and on 8086 "limit" isnt available.
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