SIS chipset

[Frank]

Got it!
Thank you very much...
--- "Hendricks David W." <dwh at lanl.gov> wrote:
> It's in the freebios2 tree: 
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freebios/freebios2/util/romcc/
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote:
> 
> > Where can I get RomCC...
> > --- Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> > > Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really
> confused.
> > > What
> > > >> is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and
> > > LinuxBios. I
> > > >> thought they were one in the same.:-(
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > freebios was started before linuxbios. LinuxBIOS "took
> over"
> > > freebios, 
> > > > but didn't change the cvs name. V1 of freebios/linuxbios
> is
> > > the CVS 
> > > > module freebios. Freebios2 is LinuxBIOS version 2.
> > > 
> > > FreeBios = LinuxBIOS.
> > > 
> > > LinuxBIOS was forked when Eric wrote RomCC last year. V2
> > > (Version2) is 
> > > the new LinuxBIOS source tree that is the 100% C version
> of
> > > LinuxBIOS. 
> > > V1 (Version  1) is the old LinuxBIOS source that used
> assembly
> > > and C.
> > > 
> > > "romcc is a C compiler that does not use a stack.  Instead
> it
> > > keeps
> > > all variables in registers.
> > > 
> > > Currently LinuxBIOS has a lot of assembly code simply
> because
> > > memory
> > > initialization is difficult in the general case.  This
> code
> > > cannot be
> > > written with a standard compiler because there is no
> memory to
> > > put
> > > a stack in.  Nor on x86 are there cache blocks that can be
> > > locked into
> > > place.  As code generated with romcc does not use a stack
> it
> > > can be
> > > used during memory initialization."
> > > 
> > > -Bari
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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