Segments in pre-C and C part

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:23, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Eric,
> > 
> > Why we use two differenct segment lay out for pre-C and
> > C part ?
> 
> For the code that runs from ram and the code that runs
> directly from the rom chip.
>  
> > In entry32.inc it is 0x08 for code and 0x10 for data but
> > in c_start we use 0x10 for code and 0x18 for data.
> 
> Good question but it is probably a decent thing that will
> keep up from making too many assumptions that they have the
> same gdt.
> 
> I don't believe this is something that has changed recently.
> 

It is there for a long time. I just want to know why.

Ollie

> Eric
>