Re: [Dri-users] Winex and DRI

[Keith W. <ke...@tu...>]

Leif Delgass wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Arkadi Shishlov wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:04:15PM -0700, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>>
>>>>To be exact ATI proprietary binary drivers use %fs register which should be
>>>>left to Win32 programs.
>>>>"ATI Radeon 8500+ Driver Support"
>>>>http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?news=55
>>>
>>>Who decided that rule?
>>
>>I don't know. If you'll look at the Wine source you'll see it use %fs for
>>thread storage.
>>I've got Radeon myself and was surprised to see Winex segfaulting on OpenGL
>>applications. GDB shows that %fs is set to something other Winex expecting
>>it to be.
>>I don't know much about Wine, so I maybe wrong on technical details..
>>
>>
>>arkadi.
> 
> 
> A quick googling turned up this:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaulttop.asp?page=/msj/archive/s2ce.htm
> 
> Apparently Windows uses the FS segment register to point to a Thread 
> Information Block structure.

That doesn't make it part of the linux call interface.

Keith