On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:40:08PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I was messing around with the boot process, and managed
> to slightly modify mkrom and start32.inc so I can
> successfully use rombase 0xfffff000. Basically
> it simply required using a short jump instead of a long
> one and using %cs instead of %es in loading the gdt.
By the way, it isn't terribly hard to get rid of "mkrom" entirely, using
only the linker to construct the rom image. I've been doing it that way
for a while. In my opinion, this is more flexible and allows more exotic
mappings than "mkrom" does, and just seems... cleaner.
