Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

[Eric W. Biederman]

WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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