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- From: knut@uni-paderborn.de (Knut Menzel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: Re: Format of .btl files
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:53:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Paderborn
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- In article <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, markhill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M Hill) writes:
- |> When the iserver boots a transputer network with a .btl file, is the
- |> iserver just sequentially picking up bytes from the file and throwing
- |> them at the C011? This would imply that the .btl file had all the necessary
- |> bootstrap code for the whole network inside it, in addition to the
- |> program code that will eventually run on each processor on the network.
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- That's right. We wrote a simple server we use instead of the iserver that
- simply writes the .btl bootfile down the bootlink of the root processor.
- From there the network will be bootet automatically.
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- If you want to write you own Boostrap loaders you can modify the .btl file
- using the flag /B when calling the collector. Therefore see
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- ANSI C toolset
- user manual
- Appendix D: Bootstrap loaders
- Page 467-480
-
- There is also an example for the INMOS Network loader.
-
- -- Knut
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