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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.

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.

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 

	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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