Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 04:46:26 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.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.BSF.4.21.0009200442130.2217-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009182150270.86297-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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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