[haiku-development] Re: Virtual 8086 mode support

Am Montag, 21. April 2008 schrieb Axel Dörfler:
> Great, thanks!
> About keeping the area around, as I proposed above: that might not be a
> good idea after all, since at least accessing the first page should
> always lead to a page fault if possible.

I too think it should be the best to setup the needed areas just before doing 
any BIOS calls, make one or more calls (whatever the driver needs) and then 
delete the areas. There would only be a small window where a possible NULL 
pointer access will not lead to SIGSEGV...

/Jan

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