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authorAlex Auvolat <alex.auvolat@ens.fr>2015-02-09 17:39:41 +0100
committerAlex Auvolat <alex.auvolat@ens.fr>2015-02-09 17:40:03 +0100
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+#pragma once
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* The GDT is one of the x86's descriptor tables. It is used for memory segmentation.
+ Here, we don't use segmentation to separate processes from one another (this is done with paging).
+ We only use segmentation to make the difference between kernel mode (ring 3) and user mode (ring 0) */
+
+void gdt_init();
+
+#define K_CODE_SEGMENT 0x08
+#define K_DATA_SEGMENT 0x10
+#define U_CODE_SEGMENT 0x18
+#define U_DATA_SEGMENT 0x20
+
+/* vim: set ts=4 sw=4 tw=0 noet :*/