From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tommy McCabe Subject: Why kernel size limitations? Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:40:35 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040302214035.52238.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org I have been finding several errors recently during the ELKS kernel compilation. At first I thought it was the version of BCC I was using (0.16.15). I then realized what it really was: the System file wouldn't form if a certain segment of code was bigger than 65535 bytes- otherwise a program called ld86 returns an error message saying it's too big for 16 bits. This could be a bit of a problem, especially when more features are included into the kernel. Why is there this limitation? Even an 8088 is capable of handling code segments bigger than around 65KB. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you=92re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com