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From: mike <mike@reifenberger.com>
To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Working on Bootforth / ficl
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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