early_mtrr.inc is not needed, and it is merged into car.inc and car_post.c YH
On 8/5/05, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jorge Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050701 18:29]: > > 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? > > Here's a little summary I wrote a while ago.. don't know if it is still > correct and complete. > > > 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? > > There are several possibilities. Either the information is placed at > well known addresses or in a certain address range, using a signature so > the kernel can find it. > Or the Kernel does callbacks (intXX). > > > In linuxbios, how it's this issue handle? > > LinuxBIOS provides tables: ACPI, MPTABLE, PIRQ table, and a LinuxBIOS > table which should some day obsolete all the other tables. > > No callbacks. They are considered unsafe and error prone. > > Stefan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxBIOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
