Booting questions ....

[Guido van Rooij]

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