boot_complete in hardwaremain() ?

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Mar 5 16:54:00 CET 2004


Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:

> Eric,
> 
> Is the boot_complete parameter in hardwaremain() still
> used in freebios2 ? I found it is xor %ebp, %ebp in asm
> and then passed to hardwaremain().

Yes.  There is a second path in.  It is only set when memory is
already initialized.

Watch what happens when you run /sbin/reboot on a hdama.


Eric



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