Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > The GDT descriptors are private to the PNP BIOS and constant values once
> > > set up. No PnPBIOS call is made before the configuration is done.
> > >
> > > Seems ok to me - or am I missing something ?
> >
> > Two user processes calling functions through /proc...
>
> The GDT descriptors are set up before /proc comes into being. I'm checking
> 2.4 code here - has someone left old stuff in 2.5 ?
PNP_TS1 and PNP_TS2 are changed on every call to the bios to point to
where the data for the 32-bit code lives.
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