<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C4DE13.6946A980">
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
name="time"/>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:DoNotRelyOnCSS/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:SpellingState>Clean</w:SpellingState>
<w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState>
<w:DocumentKind>DocumentEmail</w:DocumentKind>
<w:EnvelopeVis/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>2</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:SpaceForUL/>
<w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/>
<w:DoNotLeaveBackslashAlone/>
<w:ULTrailSpace/>
<w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/>
<w:AdjustLineHeightInTable/>
<w:UseFELayout/>
</w:Compatibility>
<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>
</w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]>
<style>
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:PMingLiU;
panose-1:2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-alt:PMingLiU;
mso-font-charset:136;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 137232384 22 0 1048577 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:PMingLiU;
panose-1:2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:136;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 137232384 22 0 1048577 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:none;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-ansi-font-size:9.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;
mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;
mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;}
span.SpellE
{mso-style-name:"";
mso-spl-e:yes;}
span.GramE
{mso-style-name:"";
mso-gram-e:yes;}
/* Page Definitions */
@page
{mso-page-border-surround-header:no;
mso-page-border-surround-footer:no;}
@page Section1
{size:595.3pt 841.9pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:42.55pt;
mso-footer-margin:49.6pt;
mso-paper-source:0;
layout-grid:18.0pt;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:\8868\683C\5167\6587;
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=ZH-TW link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:24.0pt;text-justify-trim:
punctuation'>
<div class=Section1 style='layout-grid:18.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Linuxbios writes to the beginning
of the Memory for MP tables. Shouldn’t those addresses be interrupt
vector table? It doesn’t look it contains any pointers to an interrupt handler.
Who is the table for? Will Linux kernel reference it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Linuxbios successfully loads
the payload FILO which brings up Linux kernel. But the kernel hangs while
waiting for a timer interrupt. See below. I guess the interrupt table is not correct.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>==========================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Linux version 2.4.20-8
(bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (<span class=SpellE>gcc</span> version 3.2.2
200<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>30222 (Red Hat Linux
3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 </span></font><st1:time Hour="17" Minute="54"><font
size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>17:54:28 EST</span></font></st1:time><font size=1
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 2003<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>BIOS-provided physical RAM
map:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>BIOS-e820: 0000000000000c88 -
00000000000a0000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
0000000040000000 (usable)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>128MB
HIGHMEM available.</span></font></span><font size=1 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>896MB
LOWMEM available.</span></font></span><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><font size=1
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>hm</span></font></span></span><font size=1 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
page 00000000 reserved twice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On node 0 <span
class=SpellE>totalpages</span>: 262144<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>zone(</span></font></span><font
size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>0): 4096 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>zone(</span></font></span><font
size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1): 225280 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>zone(</span></font></span><font
size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2): 32768 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kernel command line: <span
class=SpellE>ro</span> root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0<span class=GramE>,57600</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Initializing CPU#0<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Detected
1597.358 MHz processor.</span></font></span><font size=1 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Console: <span class=SpellE>colour</span>
dummy device 80x25<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Calibrating delay loop...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>====================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The MP table is specific to Tyan/s2735
not my board. I should change it. We use <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>intel</span></span>
E7501/ICHs-3. But s2735 is ICH5. Don’t know if it matters. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>gin</span></font></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>