Re: bootsect.S and magic address 0x78

Rob Landley (landley@trommello.org)
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:44:05 -0500


On Friday 18 October 2002 05:03, Gerrit Bruchhäuser wrote:
> Hello Linus,
>
>
> Can you tell me where this magic address 0x78 in arch/i386/bootsect.S
> refers to? I mean, is this somewhere specified?
>
> Many thanks and cheers from germany.
>
> Gerrit

I believe Tigran's Linux Kernel Internels guide for 2.4 covers this, you can
download it from here:

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

Alas, there isn't a 2.5 guide yet. Moves too fast. :)

Rob
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