Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 21:36:46 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: wghhicks@ix.netcom.com Cc: Jonathan Mini <mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <199711081106.VAA01053@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 06:00:44 CDT." <3464465C.435B3950@ix.netcom.com>
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> Jonathan Mini wrote: > > I have looked at FreeBSD's boot loading code in detail. As to writing > > realmode code, I feel your pain. Currently I am suffering from the same > > problem myself. The closest I have come is Bruce's bcc package, which is > > *ahem* an entertaining set of utilities. The C compiler has been more annoying > > that frustrating. > > Well, in the bad old days, I would probably have reached for Forth. > There is some precedent for this approach over at Sun... OpenBoot is big and expensive. > I could probably whip up a Forth metacompiler for FreeBSD pretty quickly > using PFE as the host. Just a thought. If you can roll a bootloader that uses just the BIOS and has a footprint around 7k, you'll have our attention... mike
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