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Chapter 10 Initialization

After a signal on the RESET pin, certain registers of the 80386 are set to predefined values. These values are adequate to enable execution of a bootstrap program, but additional initialization must be performed by software before all the features of the processor can be utilized.

10.1 Processor State After Reset
10.2 Software Initialization for Real-Address Mode
10.3 Switching to Protected Mode
10.4 Software Initialization for Protected Mode
10.5 Initialization Example
10.6 TLB Testing


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