Sergey Lyubka wrote:
> Hello,
> I am writing an article about FreeBSD's startup
> and kernel init
> (it is at http://oasis.uptsoft.com/~devnull/dh/boot.html
> for whom it may be interesting)
This link is broken.
> I am stucked at two lines in locore.s (IA 32 arch)
>
> /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s:
>
> pushl $begin /* jump to high virtualized address
>*/
> ret
>
> /* now running relocated at KERNBASE where the system is linked to run */
> begin:
> /* set up bootstrap stack */
>
> My question is:
> why this is done. My understanding was that the loader
> loaded the kernel at high virtual address already,
> so there's no need to jump.
>From my own notes:
The address of the "begin" symbol is pushed onto the stack,
and the btext() function returns ...not to its caller, but to
the begin() funcion, in the relocated address space.
This is one of those "You are not expected to understand this"
things. Probably, you would benefit from reading:
Protected Mode Software Architecture
Tom Shanley
Mindshare, Inc.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 0-201-5447-X
-- Terry
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