Booting questions ....

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 05:47 pm, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a place to sensibly insert memorytest routines....
>
> Currently I'd like to do that not in the loader, but in the kernel where
> memory is already setup to be one flat address space. This makes
> programming a lot simpler.

The loader does use a flat address space, it is just rooted at 0xa000 rather 
than 0x0, so you can't test the first few kb FWIW.

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