Re: Loading the kernel.

To: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Loading the kernel.
From: Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:26:15 +0200
Organization: Chemistry Department, Facutly of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Leigh Stoller wrote:

> I suggest looking at kern/x86/pc/base_multiboot_main.c to see how oskit
> kernels are initialized. Note that the boot adaptors in boot/ setup the
> multiboot info structure that is passed into the kernel, and from which
> the stuff like the memory layout is initialized.

The multiboot standard says that the processor is *not* allowed to be
in paging mode on kernel entry; so the complete multiboot standard would
not be usable anyway in this case...

-- Ramon

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Re: Loading the kernel.

From: Leigh Stoller <stoller@fast.cs.utah.edu>