Greetings, By chance, are you looking at a snapshot tarball? If so, that's very old. The best bet is to check out the CVS tree from sourceforge. These days, intel_main is gone and there's nothing in the chip directory.
G'day, sjames On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Shubhangi Jadhav wrote: > Hi, > > However according to the LinuxBIOS readme the assembly code calls > intel_main in freebios/chip/intel/intel_main.c which in turn calls > linuxbios_main in linuxbios/inflate/main.c. So is intel_main called first or > hardwaremain. Am I missing something > Please elaborate more on the flow. > > Thanks, > Shubhangi > > -----Original Message----- > From: steven james [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:29 PM > To: Shubhangi Jadhav > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Help needed to understand code > > > Greetings, > > Probably the first thing to understand is the overall flow of control. > > On powerup, the reset vector at f000:fff0 jumps to the start of the > assembly code. The assembly code consists of a series of modular units > that the config files paste together using include directives. It just > starts at the beginning, and new pieces are tacked on as encountered in > the config files. The config files are invoked by directives like > northbridge and southbridge. The master config file is in the mainboard > directory and is invoked by the user's config file. Most mainboard > directory have example user configs. > > The c code is linked together seperatly and then compressed. The last part > of the asm code decompresses it into RAM and calls hardwaremain > (found in src/arch/<arch>/lib/hardwaremain.c currently, <arch> can be > alpha, i386 or ppc). The remainder of the C code is all invoked from > there. > > G'day, > sjames > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Shubhangi Jadhav wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm a LinuxBIOS newbie. I have downloaded the source code for the same > and > > was trying to understand it. Looks too complicated to me. > > I'd started with the code for Intel440gx mainboard, but failed to > > understand how the northbridge and southbridge intialization routines are > > invoked. > > Can someone tell me how to go about understanding the code? > > > > Thanks, > > Shubhangi > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs > ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 701 > the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 > -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com > office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
