Re: PnP BIOS driver status

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 21:26:05 EST


> > The GDT descriptors are set up before /proc comes into being. I'm checking
> > 2.4 code here - has someone left old stuff in 2.5 ?
>
> PNP_TS1 and PNP_TS2 are changed on every call to the bios to point to
> where the data for the 32-bit code lives.

Got you - yes Thomas he's absolutely right. The lock needs to be taken
by the callers before they set the PNP_TS* entries.

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