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From: "Hans" <hans64@ht-lab.com>
To: silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com, linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:09:40 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E76B356822240E085501BEFB93552A9@linux104> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 110653.35201.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "silvercreekvalley" <silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com>
To: <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS


> 
> 
>> > 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.

A few to check out (there are more):

http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/  (comes with ELKS diskimage)
http://www.hampa.ch/pce/index.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/retro/
http://www.shinelife.co.uk/legacy-ibm-pc-emulator/

However, IA-32 emulators like Bochs/Qemu etc also work fine.

Hans
www.ht-lab.com


> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 22:26 Starting with bcc and ELKS silvercreekvalley
2009-03-10 23:21 ` David Given
2009-03-11  1:42   ` Ben Weiss
2009-03-11 21:18     ` silvercreekvalley
2009-03-11 22:09       ` Hans [this message]

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