Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:22:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020731162220.70398B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020731161322.O5057-100000@boise.neuroflux.com>
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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
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