Linux/VAX boot protocol

Pekka Enberg penberg at kernel.org
Sat Nov 24 11:39:04 CET 2012


Hello,

Where can I find documentation on Linux/VAX boot protocol? The vmlinux
images in vaxroot package:

http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/download/README.vaxroot-20010920

seem to have the following structure:

+------------------+ 0x0000
| Padding          |
+------------------+ 0x0200
| Jump instruction |
| Command line     |
+------------------+ 0x0300
| Kernel code      |

The jump instruction points to 0x104 so I assume the first 0x200 bytes
are simply discarded?

                         Pekka


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