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From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I control the load address in Elf header
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> I am one of the firmware guys that is writing a Secondary Boot  Loader th=
at boots
> FreeBSD kernel. From what I see in the ELF header for FreeBSD kernel, the=
 load
> address seems to have a value of  0x80200000 which seems to be a Virtual =
address
> for me. If I want to put the Physical address where I want the FreeBSD to=
 go,
> what are the FreeeBSD files I need to change?

See loader(8) ...  /usr/src/sys/boot/*

AFAIR we switch to protected mode in the loader itself.

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