Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:37:23 +0100 From: mike <mike@reifenberger.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working on Bootforth / ficl Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.2.00.1211131103010.9040@ux32> In-Reply-To: <1DE1DC5C-9D7F-4FC7-A27C-736B0B172DBF@fisglobal.com> References: <A0A46155-0969-459E-BCD6-4AA7B8B371BE@fisglobal.com> <alpine.WNT.2.00.1211120856000.7920@ux32> <1DE1DC5C-9D7F-4FC7-A27C-736B0B172DBF@fisglobal.com>
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Devin Teske wrote: ... >> - A user-land ficl executable which acted exactly like the bootloader for better >> forth development >> > > Does it support "include" ? That's been one of the biggest things preventing me from simulating boot in userland. If it does, this would be a very great addition. > > Yes, if I remember right. I was able to do anything up to the boot command... include is allways there btw. Its implemented using libstand funtionality and wrapped into a FORTH word later on.. NB: Because on amd64 the loader gets compiled as a i386 binary I produced there a i386 userland binary too because it was simpler to implement. Shouldn't matter for bootforth testing purposes. Greetings --- Michael Reifenberger
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