From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 31 13:22:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD1D37B405 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147BA43E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6VKMZOn070416; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:22:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from localhost (arr@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with SMTP id g6VKMZ98070412; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:22:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: arr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:22:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" To: Ryan Sommers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps In-Reply-To: <20020731161322.O5057-100000@boise.neuroflux.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Ryan Sommers wrote: :Greetings, : :Recently I became interested in researching and learning whatever I could :about how a computer boots and what is involved. There are probably better :places to get this information but since FreeBSD is my development :environment of choice I thought I would start here. : :I just have a few questions that if you could take a few minutes to answer :you would make my day. : :Several of the sites I have visited on assembly say it isn't needed :anymore. Is it still needed to write a bootstrap? : :Where is a good starting point to just read through some of the Kernel :source? Where is the entry point? I'm on all x86 architecture. : Ever think about reading the intel manuals? -- Andrew R. Reiter arr@watson.org arr@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message