Re: [PATCH 21/25] [PATCH] export cpu_gdt_descr

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 01:19 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> With paravirualization, hypervisors needs to handle the gdt,
> that was right to this point only used at very early
> inialization code. Hypervisors are commonly modules, so make
> it an export
> 

the GDT is so deeply internal that this really ought to be a _GPL
export..


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