Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:19:55 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@freefall.freebsd.org, julian@ref.tfs.com Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot asm.h start.S Message-ID: <199607131019.UAA20129@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Modified: sys/i386/boot/biosboot asm.h start.S >> Log: >> Moved the definition of DEBUGMSG() from asm.h to start.S. This macro >> is only appropriate to use in the special environment of start.S (real >> mode plus some conventions about not saving registers), and asm.h is >> supposed to be for generic macros. > This is a bad move.. > DEBUGMSG is useful right up through quite a bit of boot2.S > I used it ito find how far I was getting into boot2.S > which is the reason that it was moved to asm.h > can you please put it back there!? I thought boot2.S was "finished". I want to merge it into start.S anyway. The text size of boot2.o (with standard options) is 112 bytes and there are 185 bytes to spare. I probably won't do this until we import a current version of gas to get proper support for 16-bit mode. Bruce
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