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From: dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Kernel Startup Question
Message-ID: <799@tellab5.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:55:15 EST
Article-I.D.: tellab5.799
Posted: Wed Nov 11 19:55:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 03:08:09 EST
Reply-To: dpd@tellab5.UUCP (Dan Dietrich)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Il.
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I have a question that probably has an obvious answer.  The answer is
just not obvious to me.  I do not understand how the memory manager
is run when the kernel boots up.  Looking at kernel/main() in the book,
line 914 sets the process table PC value from the array task[].
This array (line 5143) has 0 entered for the memory manager, file system and
init().  main() does ready the memory manager and file system (line 915)
but how do they start up when their PCs are 0 ??  I can't seem to find
where the PC values get set.

Dan Dietrich
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