Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:28:26 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting questions .... Message-ID: <20041105152826.GA27117@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <418B5531.9070507@withagen.nl> References: <418AB176.9030604@withagen.nl> <418AB649.80809@freebsd.org> <418AB888.7070305@withagen.nl> <418AB9E2.6070708@freebsd.org> <418ABE31.9040502@withagen.nl> <418B5531.9070507@withagen.nl>
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:25:53AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > >Scott Long wrote: > > > >>>>The loader has a protected mode environment. It is apparently not all > >>>>that hard to port memtest86 into it. I'd highly recommend doing this > >>>>rather than trying to hack up the early pmap initialization. > >>> > >>> > >>>Is that so.... I was unable to find that. :( can you give me a pointer?? > >> > >> > >>Sorry, I know of some private efforts, but not any public efforts. > > > >To bad... Would be nice, but perhaps again too much arch dependant. > > I mailed with Guido, who told me he heard people talk about this on > EuroBSDcon. So my guess is that it is still somewhere in someones perforce > tree... Do you know about any intentions of that person to actually release > any of the code?? Waht I heart was that the loader operated in protected mode and flat address space, but without the MMU active. That should be enough. I am not sure about what "effort" Scott is talking about... -Guido
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