On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:49, Gernot Heiser wrote:
On 05 Dec 2003 13:49:02 -0500, "Jonathan S. Shapiro" shap@eros-os.org said:
JSS> Believe it or not, I'm converging, but I'm trying to do it respectfully, JSS> which means asking an unreasonable number of stupid questions at high JSS> speed. :-)
JSS> Now that I understand the shape of GPTs, I would like to understand the JSS> *mechanism* of the map operation. In particular, I would like to JSS> understand how the book-keeping mechanism works.
Hi Jon,
It seems that you're under a bit of a misconception here. GPTs are a pure implementation issue as far as L4 is concerned....
Thanks, Gernot. Shortly after posting the question, I had a brief phone discussion with Volkmar, which cleared this up for me.
shap