Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:02:18 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Assignment of GDT entries |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-09-13 am 21:16 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > >> I don't know the exact details on these; I do know that several GDT >> entries tend to be used by BIOSes in their APM implementations and thus >> are better of not being used. >> > > Thats 0x40 which tends to get used as if was a real mode base for BIOS > accesses even via the protected mode interface. >
Do you mean descriptor entry 8? Because that's TLS #3, not reserved...
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