From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 31 01:07:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20953 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 01:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20944 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 01:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00703; Sun, 31 May 1998 09:08:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 09:08:20 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation In-Reply-To: <199805301621.JAA06062@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 30 May 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is documentation available for the ARC or > > AlphaBIOS boot sequence? In particular, what services does the firmware > > provide to the bootstrap program (e.g. linload.exe). Alternatively, does > > anyone know where I can find the source code to linload.exe? > > The Linux ARC bootloader is a cut-down Linux kernel. Last I talked to > anyone about it, it used almost none of the ARC services, rather it > just banged directly on the hardware. I think that part of the problem with Milo for Linux/alpha is that it tries to be a one-size-fits-all system. The same image works when started from ARC, AlphaBIOS, SRM and even directly from Palcode when its blown into firmware. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message