On 8 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The PCBIOS compatibility code in rombios.c has quite a few warts. > Primary among them is that it written in a nasty mix of asm and 16bit C > code. With the biggest problem seeming to be that bcc is a limited > 16bit compiler.
I don't much like this code. > In real mode there is 256K that we can place a real mode BIOS in. If > all we do is stick to what a PCBIOS can do now, and don't attempt to > extend it, but just be a good implementation 256K should be enough to do > whatever is needed. we're back to square one. Why do this when we can do emulation? I think I don't see what you're planning here. > I don't know if gcc using 32bit overrides in 16bit mode would be > better than a pure 16bit C compiler. one less compiler is always good to me. > So if the issues keeping us from using 16bit C compiler are primarily > cosmetic I don't see why they can't be fixed. Long term I don't even > want to touch a compatibility layer. I want to use something much > simpler and much more powerful. I don't see the reason long term for rombios.c or 16bit C compilers. I guess I'm missing something. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
