From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 3 12:18:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09433 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@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 MAA09409; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:18:24 -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 UAA00651; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:18:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:18:48 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: IBS / Andre Oppermann cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation In-Reply-To: <35747853.60DFED19@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, IBS / Andre Oppermann wrote: > Doug Rabson 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? > > There's a nice documentation of the Alpha PALcode on > http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/dsc-library.html > > Or you can directly order the EBSDK and get the source for the PALcode. > > The SRM Consle doc describes the bootsprapping process of an Alpha > system. > > And so on... I have read most of these documents and I understand the SRM console's bootstrap process fairly well. What I need to understand is the AlphaBIOS bootstrap process which is far less well documented. -- 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-alpha" in the body of the message