Re: GDT initialization and location question.

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 18:11:42 EST


On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote:

> * Pritesh Shah (pritesh.myphotos@xxxxxxxxx) 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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~Randy
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