At Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:58:08 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: > gcc, ld, or 2 ELF specs that I looked at. An objdump -t of my kernel > reveals that there is no _end symbol. Is it possible at all to obtain > the size of the kernel?
Are you using your own linker script? > Also, I am unable to find the exact meaning of the mem_lower and > mem_upper members of the multiboot info passed to the kernel in EBX. On > a four meg system, 639KB lower and 3072KB of upper is reported. > 3072+639=3711, 3.62MB. Where did the other 385KB go? It's ROM space used by BIOS. > this could be a defective BIOS, I highly doubt it. Do these memory > numbers indicate unused RAM, after the loading of modules, excluding the > IDT, BIOS data areas, and all else? Or, do they specify something else? They just specify RAM. That exact meaning is BIOS-specific, I think. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
