Subject: Re: per-cpu TSS
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/12/2007 00:32:58
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:04:29AM +0000, David Laight wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:00PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > 
> > I don't see much reason to have a per-process LDT or to use descriptors in
> > the LDT (e.g. LUDATA_SEL) unless there are some application that needs them?
> > Perhaps for emulation but I don't believe that they are needed for native
> > programs.
> 
> I believe wine user the LDT, dunno why ...

My mistake - we don't allocate a user LDT unless a process goes and makes a
sysarch() call.

Andrew