LinuxBIOS debugging with an emulator

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Oct 26 16:52:00 CEST 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 Stephen.Kimball at bench.com wrote:

> 
> Can someone tell me what the starting sequence is with LinuxBIOS?
> 
> Reset jumps to crt0.s.  crt0.s calls auto.E.  auto.E is built using
> romcc, so source-level debugging is not possible.  

ah well :-)

>The statement
> locations can be found using the Lxxxx labels in linuxbios.map.  Then
> hardwaremain is called. Hardwaremain is the first C function called.

yep.

> Crt0 and auto run out of FLASH.  Hardwaremain is the first function
> called after LinuxBIOS is copied to RAM.

sounds good so far.

ron



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