On 6/9/05, Martin Jambor <jamborm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/8/05, Xiangfei Jia <xjianz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What I can't understand is that why don't the > > kernel just use linear addresses, without worrying logical address. Beause > > to me, the logical address makes no use in this case. > > Because it is basically compulsory on i386 architectures. You cannot > avoid having a GDT in protected mode of the processor (you can't > switch segmentation off, unlike paging, btw). In other words, > processor instructions take logical address as parameters, not linear > ones. > > HTH > > Martin Jambor > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ i remember filling GDT with TLS segments for glibc. what does this segment mean ? is it that the glibc libraries are found in this segment ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
