svn commit: r40921 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot
Rene Ladan
rene at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 11 00:01:08 UTC 2013
Author: rene
Date: Mon Feb 11 00:01:07 2013
New Revision: 40921
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40921
Log:
Some 'igor -z' improvements.
Approved by: gjb (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml Sun Feb 10 14:11:01 2013 (r40920)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml Mon Feb 11 00:01:07 2013 (r40921)
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 H
time.</para>
<para>As mentioned previously, the <literal>INT 0x19</literal>
- instruction loads an MBR, i.e. the <filename>boot0</filename>
+ instruction loads an MBR, i.e., the <filename>boot0</filename>
content, into the memory at address 0x7c00. Taking a look at
the file <filename>sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S</filename> can
give a guess at what is happening there - this is the boot
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ boot2: boot2.ldr boot2.bin ${BTX}/btx/bt
link the binary. BTX, which stands for BooT eXtender, is a
piece of code that provides a protected mode environment for the
program, called the client, that it is linked with. So
- <literal>boot2</literal> is a BTX client, i.e. it uses the
+ <literal>boot2</literal> is a BTX client, i.e., it uses the
service provided by BTX.</para>
<indexterm><primary>linker</primary></indexterm>
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ begin:</programlisting>
at a 4Gb boundary. Therefore, the instruction's linear
virtual address for this example would just be the value of
EIP. Segment registers such as CS, DS etc are the selectors,
- i.e. indexes, into GDT (to be more precise, an index is not a
+ i.e., indexes, into GDT (to be more precise, an index is not a
selector itself, but the INDEX field of a selector). FreeBSD's
GDT holds descriptors for 15 selectors per CPU:</para>
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ __asm(".previous");</programlisting>
<literal>__asm</literal> is. The third
<literal>__asm</literal> instruction marks the end of a
section. If a directive with the same section name occurred
- before, the content, i.e. the 32-bit value, will be appended
+ before, the content, i.e., the 32-bit value, will be appended
to the existing section, so forming an array of 32-bit
pointers.</para>
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