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

[Jun Koi]

On 2/25/08, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> 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.
>

Kevin solved that by putting some in asm (romlayout.S)

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

Yes, but now the asm code significantly reduced!

The curent code is not complete, but looks pretty clean. This is
definitely way to go. Keep it up, Kevin!

Thanks,
J