> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:11:05 -0700 > From: Philip Guenther <[email protected]> > > The diff below is the first step in a clean up of the amd64 low-level > segment bits. This step is to switch user-space to using code and data > segments in the global descriptor table (GDT) instead of the local > descriptor table (LDT) and to eliminate the GDT slots that we don't > actually use.
The idea sounds very good. I'm afraid that I'm not familliar enough with the details of the amd64 architecure to properly review it, but if you can answer the question I put inline below, I'm pretty much ok with this going in. > This diff shouldn't have any visible effect. Confirmation from people > running both AMD and Intel parts would be good. Works on my amd64 box with an older single core AMD Athlon64.
