Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264461AbTFIPQH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264463AbTFIPQH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:16:07 -0400 Received: from 205-158-62-67.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.67]:6884 "EHLO spf13.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264461AbTFIPQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:16:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20030609153039.1427.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Lars Unin" To: hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:30:38 +0800 Subject: Re: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot X-Originating-Ip: 213.1.33.210 X-Originating-Server: ws5-7.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1729 Lines: 49 From: Mark Hahn > > > What are .s files in arch/i386/boot, are they c sources of some sort? > > no. is there some reason you can't just look at them? > > > > > Where can I find the specifications documents they were made from? > > > > > > There are not c files. > > > They are assembler files > > .s files are versions of .S files that have been run through cpp (gcc -E). > you can know this simply by looking at the makefiles or watching a build, > or by looking at the .s file and noticing the #line directives. > > > > Try running gcc on a c file with the -S option > > > it will generate the same then you can tweak the > > > assembler produced to make it faster. > > that's useful advice, but irrelevant in this case. > > > Where can I find the .c files they were made from, > > they aren't. > > > and the spec sheets the .c files were made from? > > what the heck is a "spec sheet"? I mean where can I find the information from which "* It then loads 'setup' directly after itself (0x90200), and the system * at 0x10000, using BIOS interrupts. " -- bootsect.S The ability to know how to get the BIOS to do that comes from, e.g. a book that can tell me how to do that without taking another degree... Where the information can be found, that says what BIOS memory area 0x90200 is for etc. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/