Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a
patch for it.
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Javier Martín wrote:
> El mié, 03-09-2008 a las 20:53 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió:
>> phcoder wrote:
>>> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in
>>> kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also
>>> register "boot" command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken
>>> and kernel will become even smaller.
>> Remember that realmode code needs to reside below < 1 MiB. That is the
>> reason realmode code is embedded in kernel. In there you only see jumps
>> to RM and back to PM.
> We could use the relocator functionality that was once discussed here (I
> don't know if it was finally committed) so that modules could declare
> "bundles" of code+data to be deployed to RM area. Or make sure every
> single instruction in there uses 32-bit addressing, together with
> artificial EIP-relativization of addresses like in drivemap_int13.S
> 
> -Habbit
> 
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