Re: ARM and Position Independent Code
- Posted by useless_ Mar 05, 2013
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I think it's a joke that what's essentially a 800Mhz C-64 (with an vastly improved 6502) on a single chip is instead a mental puzzle that's wasting millions of hours of people trying to get *nix and various guis and the most complicated of programming languages installed on it.
Two ARMs and a Xeon walk into a bar...
Matt
But seriously, why not a 100Kbyte bios to talk to the hardware in a minimal way, and to set up defaults and POST sequences, and then put Eu v3 on it behind an olde dos-looking prompt? Build up from there. Everyone trying to force 100's megabytes of different *nix kernals onto it, and the obvious difficulty they are having, is soooo not user-friendly. And they'll repeat it with each weekly re-compile *nix users do. Does no one remember when bios and boot code was 1K bytes? or 16K bytes? or even fit on a 1.44kbyte floppy? or when it worked when you applied power?
useless
