From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: silvercreekvalley Subject: Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <110653.35201.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <641218.1136.qm@web50510.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Reply-To: silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1236806332; bh=B6xSn5rWKEWJvlAKvLMm71vAUUi/LMOC618+hVa+4Hs=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=C7HpihKitmrreysIw8Ejmn4L2p51LGJm5+C6NwmldQu0cV43Wyy5RyBLqoBCkDomAKBw2Q355yDxYyRzuUtnnwCbpEHnR68O8wwUYVkyVpNzoG3Vmb0gBCeIvOfnCKXvU0n2nn/bWBW8AmhKit6I27tjeAa+W+jNROrSiBDXvrI= In-Reply-To: <641218.1136.qm@web50510.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > > ELKS binaries built with bcc. But this stuff is all > pretty > > archaic so I don't know if it still works. I couldnt get the various flags to work, and objcopy didnt seem to do the trick. It just makes emulation a bit easier. > > I've never tried this, but don't you have to have > BINFMT_AOUT or BIMFMT_MISC enabled in your kernel? > > The documentation mentions Linux 2.0 / 2.1 so I'm thinking of installing an older Linux to see if I can patch the kernel as discussed in the docs. Tracking down an actual 8086 XT is quite tricky these days to run the code, so its useful to be able to emulate. I think there are some actual IBM XT emulators out there which I might try. Thanks