Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Steve Brueggeman <> | Subject | Re: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot | Date | Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:06:01 -0500 |
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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 <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca> > > > > 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.
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