On 17 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ollie Lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> > >
> > > My biggest question. Does the docipl case need a 16bit entry point?
> > > Probably.
> > >
> >
> > I guess so. Ron had done another mission impossible that put ipl.S
> > into 32Bit mode for Ali chipset. Maybe he has something to tell.
the 32bit ipl.S had a 16bit entry point and went in to 32-bit mode via the
usual lgdt & longjmp sequence. The .S produced a 1Mbyte .o, of which only
the last 512 bytes mattered.
that needed a tail -c 512 which I did by hand as I did not know what to do
with the build situation as it is.
> Looking into this I am realizing we need to a little more flexible on
> how we build the linker script. The case for the asus_cua with
> the protected mode startup logic is also have serious problems
> with my new build.
Since the Acer guys have eliminated the protected mode in ipl.S this is
suddenly less of a problem.
> So I'm going to implement something like mainboardinit for the linker
> script ...
come again?
ron
