Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > phcoder wrote: >> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in >> kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also >> register "boot" command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken >> and kernel will become even smaller. > > Remember that realmode code needs to reside below < 1 MiB. That is the > reason realmode code is embedded in kernel. In there you only see jumps > to RM and back to PM. > kern/loader.c is always executed in PM. It just chooses which kernel-specific function to call next. RM helpers are found in kern/i386/loader.S and kern/i386/pc/startup.S (for chainloader).
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