From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:09:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4E76B356822240E085501BEFB93552A9@linux104> References: <110653.35201.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Reply-To: "Hans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com, linux-8086@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "silvercreekvalley" To: 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 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >