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Re: Booting oskit from linear flash
>If you don't have a bios to help, then you can use linear flash memory and
>send the initial chip select to the flash device. However, one would have
>to write some custom software to configure the system before loading a
>boot sector loader like lilo.
Hey... the things is diskless... why would he want to load a bootsector ?
If I understood correctly, he wants to put his whole kernel in the flash
memory and just have it work from that. All you need in order to get it
kickstarted is a little piece of code that does a memory count, gets the
processor into pmode, and passes the multiboot structure onto the kernel.
Or have I forgotten something ?
Ramon
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Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Chemistry Student, OS Programmer and all-round Weirdo
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
(Ogden Nash)
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