Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009191049560.1923-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009200442130.2217-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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I'll second this. > > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > The bss clearing code hasn't changed for years on i386's. I can't see > > > where the bss is cleared on alphas (alpha_init is called very early > > > in locore.s). > > > > The bss is cleared by the loader for both x86 and alpha. I guess x86 > > clears it again in locore but it doesn't need to. > > It does need to, for compatibility with alternative loaders including boot2 > and going back a long way (locore still has support for thr FreeBSD-1.1 > boot blocks). > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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