Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Aug 12 09:49:00 CEST 2003
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, ron minnich wrote:
> > compiling v86bios.vm86 from above I get everything into 20k.
not the emulator, surely. Just the bios support code, right?
Let's get our terms right.
BIOS support code -> the code in ADLO, or the linuxbios support code, that
provides BIOS support functions to expansion roms
emulator -> A software program that can interpret x86 instruction streams
and execute them
Let's stop using the term 'BIOS emulation' -- it's way too confusing!
The x86 emulator need to support the needs of an expansion rom bios is ca.
150K at best.
The BIOS support code is tiny -- I'm not surprised at 20k.
ron
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