NVidia glx stuff dies in sysarch(I386_SET_LDT, ...)

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > Looks OK, but if we are doing a dynamic allocation, it might be
> > better to start at NLDT just to avoid the known problem of someone
> > using 6...  Just a thought.
> 
> sure.. (though we don't know how many they use.... we just saw the first
> one fail).
> 
> of course they only link with linux threads.
> when they link with us they's use our %gs..
> 
> I also noticed that if we disable the 'splat' mode, we'd break sysVR4
> binary code as they do that.. (though it's #if 0'd out at the moment)


not to mention linux (more important..) though I might add that that
code could do with rewriting to get rid of a lot of "stackgap" stuff.

(i386/linux/linux_machdep.c around line 630)