Re: ARM and Position Independent Code
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 05, 2013
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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?
FreeDOS only works on x86 cpus, so that's simply not possible until someone does a port or makes a clone. (It's possible to emulate it, of course, but that's an obvious non-starter.)
(Even today, most kernels do not approach the 100-megabyte range...)
