[Oberon] FPGA Oberon - Modules.rsc

[Jörg]

Yes indeed, these are RISC instructions.

The Oberon source of the bootloader (aka BIOS) is here:

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/BootLoad.Mod.txt

 

This file contains different versions of the bootloader (disk and line, line-only…)

 

br

Jörg

 

From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of thomas.kral at email.cz
Sent: Mittwoch, 22. März 2017 15:41
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] FPGA Oberon - Modules.rsc

 

Hi Andreas,

 

Thank you, nice work of yours!

 

In the chapter 14.2 it hints that linker is almost identical to `Modules.Mod' loader, except it links statically into a file, rather than into memory.

 

Addresses are relocated with origin 0H, from a fixed start of Oberon partition?

 

I also found found some  boot linking modules in native oberon souce files.

./src/x86/Unix/BootLinker.Mod

./src/NO/BootLinker.Mod

 

Was I close?

 

What would be also  interesting to decompose `prom.mem' to understand how this file could be produced.

It seems to have 361 lines each ascii encoded long word. Ends with C7000000, lines 362-490 are zeros .

Are these RISC machine instructions?

 

 

Many thanks

Tomas 

 

   

 

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The book Project Oberon does not describe the way the inner core itself is built (it only mentions that a “boot linker”is needed for that) or loaded onto the boot area of the local disk, nor are the tools to accomplish this published.
 
A minimal set of the Oberon building tools can be found at:
 
https://github.com/andreaspirklbauer/Oberon-building-tools



Usage:



   ORP.Compile Kernel.Mod FileDir.Mod Files.Mod Modules.Mod ~



   Linker.Link Modules    # prepare inner core (pre-linked binary)



   Builder.Build Modules  # load inner core into boot area of disk
 
 
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thomas.kral at email.cz thomas.kral at email.cz 
Tue Mar 21 09:13:34 CET 2017




Hi Joerg,
I was rereading the chapter 14 again, I realise the boot over RS232 is 
triggered by a switch, but I still do miss the point, how do I build the 
inner core, and Oberon0. In the text there is a reference to boot linker. 
 
Many thanks
 
Tomas 
 
 
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"
 
The inner core is at a fixed location on the disk.
 
The boot process is described in chapter 14.1:
 
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Applications.pdf
(https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Applications.pdf)

 

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