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Author: | onlyonemac [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:34 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Understanding intcall in linux kernel |
dream21 wrote: Schol-R-LEA wrote: So the code you are looking at here is only really there for an edge case, and is not the start-up used by Linux on most systems today. The x86/boot directory, with all the 16-bit startup code, is basically Linux's appendix, important at one time but now sort of just hanging around there in a reduced form because there's no reason to eliminate it even though it isn't really needed anymore. So that means that we cannot build a minimal boot environment using that code? |
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