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SubjectRe: Assignment of GDT entries
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...

J
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