From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261262AbUBNIam (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:30:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261368AbUBNIam (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:30:42 -0500 Received: from pxy4allmi.all.mi.charter.com ([24.247.15.43]:58857 "EHLO proxy4.gha.chartermi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261262AbUBNIah (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:30:37 -0500 Message-ID: <402DDD4E.6020204@quark.didntduck.org> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:33:18 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ameer armaly CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel boot order References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Charter-MailScanner-Information: X-Charter-MailScanner: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ameer armaly wrote: > Hi all. > What determines the order in which parts of the kernel are loaded? Is it > in main.c or omsething like that or is it in the link order, or something > totally different. > Please reply privately to me at ameer@charter.net since I can't handle 300 > msgs a day. > Thanks, > Unless it's explicity called from init/main.c, then it's initcall level then link order that determines the order. -- Brian Gerst