Re: Confusion regarding GDT and PGD

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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 15:56 +0530, Leonidas . wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For linux on x86 platform, we have 4 level paging i.e. PGD, PUD,PMD
> and PTE (according to UTLK) or atleast PGD , PMD and PTE. Now there is
> something called global descriptor table (GDT) and local descriptor
> table (LDT). What is the relationship between these two things? What
> is the relationship between GDT and PGD if any?
> Can someone explain these things clearly?

Following link should give you enough information about this...

http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/i386/

cheers,
sandeep


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