linux-kernel - Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:16:43 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Michael McConnell <soruk@...dani.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> 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.
> 

A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
though.  I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.

	-hpa
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