From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 30 10:25:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04416 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 10:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles195.castles.com [208.214.165.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04402 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 10:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06062; Sat, 30 May 1998 09:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805301621.JAA06062@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug Rabson cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 11:50:41 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 09:21:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 the Linux-Mips ARC bootloader is similar. > Sigh. I should have read more source code while I was at Microsoft :-). 8) Would they have let you at something like that anyway? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message