On Di, 2017-05-16 at 15:39 +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hi all, > > Perhaps you already noticed. There are efforts to resurrect true 16-bit only > x86 > GCC port [1][2]. I added it coreboot cross toolchain script. > > https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/19711/ > > You can compile it ./buildgcc -j4 -p ia16-elf > > So far, I only tried to compile some simple programs, but I believe it could > be > handy for SeaBIOS 16-bit code, which could be true 16-bit.
Sounds interesting, especially for vgabios where we have lots of workarounds for 16bit emulators handling 32bit instructions not correctly. But I guess I would just wait and see for now, until this is merged and present in gcc/binutils releases. cheers, Gerd _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
