From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
randy.dunlap@verizon.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move SWAP option in menu
Date: 07 Mar 2003 12:41:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047040872.20794.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307100330.GA4758@iram.es>
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:03, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > Linux 8086 can swap because it can use CS/DS updates to relocate code/data.
>
> Unless I miss a subtle trick, that's using the segment registers as a
> poor man's MMU. You can share library code with far calls but you can't
> use "far" data pointers, can you?
Linux 8086 doesnt support "far" anything. The segment registers are
being used as base registers, and on 8086 "limit" isnt available.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 4:36 [PATCH] move SWAP option in menu Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-05 18:17 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-03-05 21:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-06 18:43 ` Tom Rini
2003-03-06 18:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-06 18:54 ` Tom Rini
2003-03-06 18:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-06 19:33 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-03-06 21:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 10:03 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-03-07 12:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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