Tony Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Ron, > > For now flash would be fine. Unfortunately in my ignorance, I don't even know > what file is being unzipped. Is there any documentation you can point me to to > understand at a high level what the gunzip() function is doing? This is my > first experience dealing with a BIOS.
option ELF_BOOT=1 The gunzip code is there for legacy reasons. What is happening is that the hardware has been initialized, and it is loading either the Linux kernel or a bootloader that will later load a kernel. > At some point we would love to be able to model exactly what is happening on a > Matsonic 7308 motherboard, but the immediate goal is to simulate approximately > what is happening until we jump into the Linux startup_32: block. Why do you need the modeling? What problem are you trying to solve? If it is just for a convinient development environment there are simpler ways you can go. Eric
