WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for your point. > I know little about virtualization, maybe can't help much. But I am interested > in other things you mentioned. AFAIK, segments can't be avoided on i386, and > Linux uses them very little, how are they recalculated constantly?
Look in arch/i386/boot/setup.S it runs in 16bit mode. We are talking about real mode segments not 16bit segments. 16bit real mode is a completely different ball game, and why we keep BIOS calls isolated to that one dinky file. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
