From 83e3a618a7589f71f7e9edf0b7f1f6129aa31358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rene Ladan Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:01:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some 'igor -z' improvements. Approved by: gjb (mentor) --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml index 08776a032e..ea41ea36d1 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.xml @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz time. As mentioned previously, the INT 0x19 - instruction loads an MBR, i.e. the boot0 + instruction loads an MBR, i.e., the boot0 content, into the memory at address 0x7c00. Taking a look at the file sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S can give a guess at what is happening there - this is the boot @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ boot2: boot2.ldr boot2.bin ${BTX}/btx/btx link the binary. BTX, which stands for BooT eXtender, is a piece of code that provides a protected mode environment for the program, called the client, that it is linked with. So - boot2 is a BTX client, i.e. it uses the + boot2 is a BTX client, i.e., it uses the service provided by BTX. linker @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ begin: at a 4Gb boundary. Therefore, the instruction's linear virtual address for this example would just be the value of EIP. Segment registers such as CS, DS etc are the selectors, - i.e. indexes, into GDT (to be more precise, an index is not a + i.e., indexes, into GDT (to be more precise, an index is not a selector itself, but the INDEX field of a selector). FreeBSD's GDT holds descriptors for 15 selectors per CPU: @@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ __asm(".previous"); __asm is. The third __asm instruction marks the end of a section. If a directive with the same section name occurred - before, the content, i.e. the 32-bit value, will be appended + before, the content, i.e., the 32-bit value, will be appended to the existing section, so forming an array of 32-bit pointers.