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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and TLS, -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs needed?

To: Sven Köhler <skoehler@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen and TLS, -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs needed?
From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:57:38 +0200
Cc: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sven Köhler wrote:
>> However, there is a fix in the later models of Opteron/Athlon64 processors 
>> that allows segments to be used. Intel, I think, hasn't got this feature 
>> (yet?)... 
> 
> And 64-Bit VMWare doesn't run without it, and my Athlon64-CPU doesn't
> have segmentation-support yet :-(
> 
> (And so i guess, Intel CPUs have that feature)

no they don't - if you want to read up a bit you could take a look at
the following vmware knowledgebase article:

http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1901&sliceId=SAL_Public

Stefan

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