Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 03:16:30 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: wghhicks@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <19971108031630.47892@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <199711081106.VAA01053@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 09:36:46PM %2B1030 References: <3464465C.435B3950@ix.netcom.com> <199711081106.VAA01053@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> stands accused of saying: > > 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... 7k? wow. You've got more space than I thought you did. (by a lot) -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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