On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 03:32:15PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > The 0xff byte after the bitmap is a terminator byte, check your Intel book > vol 1, section 9.5.2.
Ah, that explains it. I have seen the extra byte, and was wondering what I missed. I have the Intel books now (got them today), so I can read up more about this stuff. BTW, the user tss does not contain such a terminator, so I will add one. > Your fix is ok, though I would use memset (not that it matters for a > boot-time only thing). Yes, of course that's better. > According to my Intel book, the other solution is to have no io bitmap > space at all: missing bits are treated as disallowed if the bitmap is > shorter than 64k, down to 0. It also should work to set the io bitmap base address to or beyond the segment with the same effect. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
