Linux 2.6.24 L4FB and VGA_CONSOLE

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 14:21:37 +0100, Marc CHALAND wrote:
> >From Ronald Aigner:
> 
> > The address of the UTCB is taken in the stub from the environment
> > variable. This environment variable (_dice_corba_env->utcb) is set per
> > default with l4sys_utcb_get which in turn does 'asm( "%gs:0" )'. The
> > problem with Linux applications (running on L4Linux) is that they are
> > linked to a glibc that uses %gs for its own purposes. Therefore, the
> > UTCB pointer is probably bogus and thus UTCB IPC fails.
> 
> Wunderbar :). That explains why I encounter problems with L4Linux.

This particular issue is fixed now, btw.



Adam
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