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# GNU GPL OS/K #
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# Desc: Folder description - "boot" #
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This folder contains the source for OS/K's bootloader.
OS/K being intended to only run on x86-64 systems, we have not divided
this folder into one sub-folder per architecture.
The bootloader itself is external to the OS/K project. We are using GRUB 2 to load
our kernel loader in memory.
The kernel loader, that we call the loader, is the main subject of this folder.
This loader is intended to load the ELF64 kernel at the specified address and
prepare it for the hard work it have to do :
- Parsing the ELF64
- Load the kernel
- Prepare a structure for it with memory map, cpu infos, and other devices infos.