From: Joerg Pommnitz (jpo@kappa.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: 02/15/93


From: jpo@kappa.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz)
Subject: Need info on some  kernel internals
Date: 15 Feb 1993 12:42:58 +0100

Well I'm preparing a meeting of UNiX-freaks
to introduce them to Linux.

So I need some information:

1) Memory layout:

- programs start at base 0x0000 of their code segment. Correct ?
  So no kind of relocation is needed. Correct ?

- The initial stackpointer points to adress ???

- There is some memory reserved for shared libraries. This memory starts at
  adress ???

- The kernel has it's own adress space. Correct ?? <-- I assume this is incorrect,
  but I don't know the correct version.

2) Linux qirx

- ioperm - syscall -> parameter
- iopl - syscall -> parameter , default value for iopl of user-programs
- sysinfo -syscall -> some information on the returned values for loadavg
- vm86 - syscall -> EVERYTHING !!!!

3) anything else worth mentioning.

                                        Thank you
                                        Joerg