On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:52:12AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have not seen the code, so if someone describe this in detail to me, I > > can then write a free reimplementation. > > > Now, we probably don't have the toolchain to do this, and a full cross > > compiler for a handfull of instructions is not worth it. > > Huh? Is the bootsector use written in a kind of machine language that > the regular as(1) for the architecture does not support? I thought > that i386 was the only platform with *that* problem.
I suppose that the boot sector may contain a bit more than the standard elf or coff format. Not sure though. It may contain checksum info or such, or magic stuff, or whatever. I have not looked at it (and should not for a clean room implementation), so i cannot really say. This is mac os though, which dates back to 84 or earlier. > Things like boot sectors are quite reasonable to write in assembly > language. Ok. Friendly, Sven Luther
