On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading,
>> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have
>> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc
>> booted up.
>
> Try
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence
> https://github.com/coreos/grub/tree/2.02-coreos/grub-core/boot/i386/pc
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/main.c#L135
>
Thanks for the comment but I was more looking along the lines of "When
I used the early SPARC 1 the boot was controlled by ???? and it was
really good because......" hence my original comment about "been there,
done that", people who are old enough to know what a SPARC1 looked like
or even used a Personal Iris or a POWERstation.
Andrew
