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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <BR>On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:27:11AM -0700, Viswesh S wrote:<BR>> I modified the makefile and copied the coreboot before the<BR>> stripping to vis_1strip and then did an objdump.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">>But why are you doing this anyway? Wouldn't it be easier to just look<BR>> at the source code?<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">[Viswesh] The source code doesnt give you the functional flow.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Taking one example, if we look at entry32.inc, we cant see that the next function is fpu_start.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">If we dump the elf file we can actually see the next function which is being called, one of the reasons why I looked at the assembly code.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I like to understand the assembly code also, but right now the utmost priority is to understand the functional flow.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Suppose you modify the linux bios, using linux how do u flash it to the chip ?</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Do you have in system code for it (or) any tool which does it for you.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Is it better that I write code to write the coreboot to the bios chip.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Thanks,</DIV>
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