Re: RFC: getting rid of the TSS + patch

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
27 Aug 1997 18:10:33 +0200

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Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc7537.hil.siemens.at> writes:
> On 27 Aug 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > [...] and major redesign to go
> > beyond 8,000-odd; this is because Linux uses i386 TSS, which means
> > each process needs a slot in the GDT.[...]
>
> i've already done this part a few weeks ago: full soft thread switching
> without any TSS switching, with full iopl() and ioperm() interface

This is cool...

> some stuff: removes all references to tss, man did it look funny to see
> references to current.tss in asm-sparc/*.h ;))) but it breaks other

You seem to have a couple of problems with these files:

> Binary files 2.1.48-pre2/include/asm-sparc/kgdb.h and linux/include/asm-sparc/kgdb.h differ
> Binary files 2.1.48-pre2/include/asm-sparc/machines.h and linux/include/asm-sparc/machines.h differ

*Binary* ?

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Matthias Urlichs

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