From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sendkey patch
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:11:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BED36B.2060005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BECF2A.4080703@nic.fi>
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> phcoder wrote:
>> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in
>> kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also
>> register "boot" command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken
>> and kernel will become even smaller.
>
> Remember that realmode code needs to reside below < 1 MiB. That is the
> reason realmode code is embedded in kernel. In there you only see jumps
> to RM and back to PM.
>
kern/loader.c is always executed in PM. It just chooses which
kernel-specific function to call next. RM helpers are found in
kern/i386/loader.S and kern/i386/pc/startup.S (for chainloader).
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 14:23 Sendkey patch phcoder
2008-09-02 14:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 15:58 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:12 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:19 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 19:01 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 19:29 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 16:30 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 18:39 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 20:10 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 22:22 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 23:38 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 0:08 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 0:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 9:10 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 11:19 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 10:37 ` bitbucket
2008-09-03 7:07 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:07 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-03 17:23 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 17:25 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:48 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 17:53 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-03 18:11 ` phcoder [this message]
2008-09-04 22:16 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-05 16:13 ` [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch) phcoder
2008-09-05 16:47 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 19:48 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:11 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 20:25 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:59 ` Javier Martín
2008-12-15 13:54 ` phcoder
2008-12-15 16:41 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-16 14:34 ` phcoder
2009-02-07 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-07 19:30 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-07 23:02 ` phcoder
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