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Article #1896Re: Format of .btl files
From: Rob Kurver
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:50
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:50
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In <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.
Indeed. The bootable file (.btl for Inmos, .run for PACT) contains the
prebooter, main booter, network booter, system processes, user processes,
network configuration information, and whatever else is needed to start
the program. It is fully selfcontained - the iserver or pserver merely
dumps the file to the link interface, without any interpretation.
>Mark
Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutrun2!dutncp8!telnet From: rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver) Subject: Re: Format of .btl files Message-ID: <telnet.727717819@dutncp8> Sender: news@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: dutncp8.tn.tudelft.nl Organization: PACT, Delft, The Netherlands References: <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:50:19 GMT Lines: 23