Re: GDT initialization and location question.
From: Randy.Dunlap (rdunlap_at_xenotime.net)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:11:17 -0700 (PDT) To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Pritesh Shah (pritesh.myphotos@gmail.com) wrote:
> > I was wondering as to where is the GDT initialized during the boot
> > sequence? I will need the filename and the name of the routine that
> > does this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Search for cpu_gdt_table (one is literal, the other is per_cpu). You
> should be able to work it out from there.
> -
I would have said search for /gdt/ in arch/i386/boot/setup.S .
Maybe both are helpful.
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