Re: Assignment of GDT entries

[Alan Cox]

Ar Mer, 2006-09-13 am 21:16 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> I don't know the exact details on these; I do know that several GDT
> entries tend to be used by BIOSes in their APM implementations and thus
> are better of not being used.

Thats 0x40 which tends to get used as if was a real mode base for BIOS
accesses even via the protected mode interface.

Alan

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