From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 30 13:50:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2796237B53F; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:50:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA03078; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:50:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA05521; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:35:29 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <20000330233528.20763@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:35:28 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: Michael Chin-yuan Wu Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, groggy@lemis.com, msmith@freebsd.org, marcel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "FreeBSD Internals" chapter in handbook Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Chin-yuan Wu on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:13:38AM -0600 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Michael Chin-yuan Wu wrote: [Re: section 23.2 ``PC Memory Utilization'' in the handbook] > 1. Remove the memory access section and rewrite it. > Hopefully, Mr. Wunsch or some other willing and able > person will write it/send it to me. And I will rewrite > the article into a form that is easier to read. My part was merely an explanation how the old bootstrap was loading. Yes, it's completely outdated now and should be dropped. Unfortunately, i don't have the slightest clues how the current boot loader is working (except that i know it loads a Forth interpreter as its third stage), perhaps the initial two stages still work the same way and only their source code has been restructured, perhaps they work entirely differently. I see the names of Mike Smith and Marcel Moolenaar quite often in the initial commits of the new bootstrap code, perhaps one of them could volunteer to contribute for a rewrite of that part. Speaking of boot code: i've already seen it in Usenet a number of times, and had to help out a colleague today with his new computer, a lot of newer machines seem to fail the assumption that the BIOS sets the `enhanced keyboad' flags, thus they continue to boot on the serial console... [Please don't followup about this to the Cc list, but take it to the proper list instead.] -- cheers, J"org / 73 de DL8DTL joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message