From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 24 10:13:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7152337B408; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:13:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6NNLw203318; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107232321.f6NNLw203318@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Baldwin Cc: Weiguang SHI , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jmp after setting PE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:16:00 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:21:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message