8i is just under 7,000 lines, but could perhaps be reduced.
or, since it's intel/bios related, increased!
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Russ Cox wrote:
(keep the kernel a little smaller, a little safer).
now that you mention this ...
source to an out-of-kernel emulator is in the linuxbios tree in
/LinuxBIOSv2/util/vgabios/
btw: most of this is from X11. I just broke it out, fixed some bugs,
Ollie fixed some more, and made it all work standalone.
It could be ported to plan 9 without too much trouble.
I think the standalone prog is the way to go, too.
ron
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