Re: [patch] tls-2.5.31-C3

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
12 Aug 2002 11:35:24 +0100

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 11:49, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> but, couldnt APM use its own private GDT for real-mode calls, with 0x40
> filled in properly? That would pretty much decouple things.

Oh and secondly they are not actually real mode calls, they are
protected mode 32bit calls with certain segment registers set up to
point to specific things taken from the apm bios 32 interface

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