Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 06:13:08 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Jonathan Mini <mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <34644944.A4C78319@ix.netcom.com> References: <199711081106.VAA01053@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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 Sounds doable... (Sound of mad scientist trundling off to basement)
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