Order of Execution

[sivakumar]

Sometime back Ron has mail to the group with complete serial output of
LinuxBIOS. You can refer that for more clarification. It will give you
some idea about the steps invloved. Also you can refer crt0.s file which
will be created after build. It contains the assembly code for RAM
initializationa and continues with the hardwaremain.

-Siva
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 22:07, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> Hello,
> 	My attempt at a sis530 port seems to be coming along. I am almost 
> ready to compile and try this thing. I am though confused or unclear as 
> to the order that stuff needs to happen. I assume that eventually I 
> initialize RAM and then superIO and all that, what I don't understand 
> is the basic order of execution, this happens and then this needs to 
> and then this ... etc. I have been using as a guide the sis540 chipset 
> and stuff like that to get my configuration files together and as 
> examples, but well since the code for stuff is spread accross trees, 
> what happens when I make one of these projects? Does it take the 
> mainboard.c file first, then the raminit? I'm not sure if I am being as 
> clear as possible, but if anyone has a clue what I'm asking about it 
> would help.
> 
> 	For example, the raminit and the chipset specific code is usually 
> assembly, whereas the mainboard.c is well, C. So where does that 
> raminit come into play, and how is it called, IS it called like a 
> function, same goes for the chipset initialization (I guess chip init 
> is tied pretty closely with the ram init stuff but well what happens in 
> what order is what I could use some pointers on....
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sivakumar <sivakumar.subramani at wipro.com>
wipro