On 2/25/08, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jun Koi wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > On 2/22/08, Kevin O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> FYI. I'm interested in reviving the ADLO effort. I sent the > >> following email to the bochs developers mailing list. > >> > >> > > > > I think one of the reasons why they wrote the BIOS in asm is because > > it makes the result code small, as the size is limited in 64KB. What > > do you do to make sure that the ported code stays within the limit? > > > > plus, some addresses in those 64k are hard wired to specific interrupt > handlers. Quite some code out there assumes this. >
Kevin solved that by putting some in asm (romlayout.S) > It's still possible, but it wont be completely clean and easy. > Yes, but now the asm code significantly reduced! The curent code is not complete, but looks pretty clean. This is definitely way to go. Keep it up, Kevin! Thanks, J -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
