Re: [RFC 1/6] Allow areas in t he lower 1Mb for x86 for vm86 mode.

"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> Thu, 01 May 2008 23:50:47 +0200 CEST
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <41129180461-BeMail@zon>
Jan Klötzke <[email protected]> wrote:
> A vm86 mode task can access only the lower 1Mb of the virtual address 
> space.
> Allow areas to be explicityl created also in this region for x86 but 
> keep
> automatically placed areas (addressSpec = B_ANY_*) out of it.

While I would prefer to make this a kernel only feature (and put that 
stuff into the kernel space only), I think we can use it as is for now, 
until someone wants to clean it up :-)
I'll commit it tomorrow.

Bye,
   Axel.


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