[parisc-linux] A todo entry

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:59:15 +0100


On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:15:34AM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> It was probably me.

probably.  various people hae asked in the past, but you're the most
recent :-)

> This is slightly over my head, but that is my understanding of what needs
> to be done: instead of checking with segment_eq we need a routine,
> which just reads from memory, using space from sr2. With proposed
> modifications to get_fs, get_ds and set_fs it will automagically contain
> a correct value (0 for kernel memory and same as sr3 for userspace).

Right.

> Is it the correct interpretation? Is it still possible to do in view
> of John's comment?

Certainly; John was just pointing out some of the issues to be aware of.

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