[coreboot] [RFC] port bochs-bios to gcc

[Stefan Reinauer]

Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 2/22/08, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
>   
>> FYI.  I'm interested in reviving the ADLO effort.  I sent the
>>  following email to the bochs developers mailing list.
>>
>>     
>
> I think one of the reasons why they wrote the BIOS in asm is because
> it makes the result code small, as the size is limited in 64KB. What
> do you do to make sure that the ported code stays within the limit?
>   
plus, some addresses in those 64k are hard wired to specific interrupt 
handlers. Quite some code out there assumes this.

It's still possible, but it wont be completely clean and easy.


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