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...

   J
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