Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:21:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Weiguang SHI <weiguang_shi@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jmp after setting PE? Message-ID: <200107232321.f6NNLw203318@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:16:00 PDT." <XFMail.010723161600.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> > Well, this BTX thing is amazing: all this effort, (btxld, run-time
> > library crt0.o, loader, etc.) seems to just to provide a 32-bit
> > protected and possibly paging-enabled environment to start the
> > kernel/loader(and to confuse a new-comer like me.) What are the
> > other gains? Where can I found more info about this BTX before going
> > through the ultimate source code? (I've search the mailing-lists.)
Basically, yes. The loader does a lot (module loading, multiple disk-
and filesystem-support) and could be used for a lot more (it's fully
programmable, and in fact quite a bit of its functionality is implemented
in Forth already).
There isn't, unfortunately, much in the way of documentation covering it
broadly.
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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