On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 17:09, Richard Hodges wrote: > Would anyone be able to provide information on the arguments > to kernel_entry (in head.S)? > > The first two look pretty straightforward, argument count and > string vectors. I assume that argument zero is actually the > first argument, and not "vmlinux"? > > What are the third (ulong) and fourth (int *) arguments? I have > read head.S and searched for days trying to find this info :-( > > I thought PMON would be a decent reference, but run_target() only > seems to set $4 and $5, before calling _go(). That's boot code specific. MIPS Tech's yamon passes: 0: number of arguments 1: pointer to first arg 2: pointer to environment variables 3: pointer to prom routines you can call Pete
