cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Fri Oct 3 23:51:06 PDT 2003


Peter Wemm wrote:

>   This is bad though because it gives kernel mode code the opportunity
>   to accidently write to the first few megs of the general page pool
>   which is remapped at KERNBASE.  It needs to be fixed properly.

I'm not sure, now that I think about it more, I think Bruce may have tried
to tell me about this once or twice before.  Possibly when I was tinkering
with pmap_mapdev last time.

Cheers,
-Peter
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