[LinuxBIOS] First instruction in linuxbios

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 19:16:49 CEST 2005


reset16.inc--->entry16.inc--->entry32.inc--->cache_as_ram.inc--->cache_as_ram_auto.c(include
mem init and ht init, and copy or unzip linuxbios_ram to ram and jmp
it)---->hardwaremain.c( dev init and resource allocation) --->elfload(
to load payload)

from hardwaremain to elfload is linked and compressed in linuxbios_ram.rom
and togther with others is linked into linuxbios.rom

YH

On 7/1/05, Jorge Cardona <jorgeecardona at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm new in this, and i'm reading the source and  i have a question, which
> one it's exactly the first instruction that the processor execute when the
> pc is booting?, in which file is it?
> 
> I don't complete understand the relationship between a normal bios and the
> kernel, i think that the bios it's has to pass some data to the kernel, if
> that's true ¿how exactly is that data passed to the kernel?
> 
> In linuxbios, how it's this issue handle?
> 
> PD: sorry for my english
> Thanks
> -- 
> Jorge Eduardo Cardona
> jorgeecardona at gmail.com
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