Personally I don’t understand why boot loaders insist on writing the code the way they do. There is BIOS services for boot device I/O, serial port debug and putting payloads anywhere in memory. I think a boot loader will suffice running in 16-bit real mode or unreal mode (16-bit code, 32-bit data) and using the BIOS APIs to communicate with the hardware. It will always be compatible and a lot faster. I think most boot loaders are overly bloated.
> 26 mar 2015 kl. 19:54 skrev Alexandru Gagniuc via coreboot > <[email protected]>: > > On Thursday, March 26, 2015 07:53:04 AM Paul Menzel wrote: >> The file is now 578K big and in CBFS the compressed size is a little >> over 200 KB. >> > I never understood how grub2 can do less than seabios but be much larger. OK, > you caught me! grub2 can read files off a disk. > > Alex > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
