Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Nov 1998 07:30:15 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981119125048.327A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Linux probably started at the DOS prompt (shreak Oh! ---horrors), the
> primatives necessary to get into 32-bit mode were probably done in
> MASM (shreak Oh! ---horrors), and the first I/O was probably via
> RS-232C.

Wrong on all counts. Linux started at the Minix prompt, the assembler
used was as86, and the first I/O was to the VGA console.

-hpa

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