On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:47:36 +0100 (CET), Jimi wrote:

>Also because most GCONFIG internals are pure assembly, a flat-selector could make 
>things worse. If I mistype 
>something now and a bad offset is used somewhere, it will result in either corrupted 
>area/data-segment or 
>exception. By using a flat ring-0 selector, I may accidentaly corrupt some other 
>data, also I wouldn't be able to 
>use e.g. carry flag on 64k overflow trick. Instead I would have to use compares and 
>an additional register (a 
>shame in search routines).

I'm really looking forward into how you are going to marry this with
the all flat 32bit ACPI stuff.

Ciao,
  Dani


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