Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262000AbTFIUwY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:52:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262001AbTFIUwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:52:23 -0400 Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.114]:52752 "HELO smtp017.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262000AbTFIUwW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:52:22 -0400 From: Steve Brueggeman To: "Lars Unin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:06:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20030609153039.1427.qmail@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <20030609153039.1427.qmail@linuxmail.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1829 Lines: 53 Not sure, but I think this is what you want. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Linux-Init-HOWTO.html Steve Brueggeman On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:30:38 +0800, you wrote: >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. - 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/