Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:27:23 -0700 | From | aasloan <> |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, root@chaos.analogic.com wrote: > If you find a BIOS it will be in 'C' and Intel asm. There's no way > anybody would have used AT&T (chicken v.s. egg problem). > > I agree the code is a mess. Further: > o There is no makefile. > o There is no way to make the executable file that does something, > possibly the final relocations and checksum (no source). > o The 'ASM' sources will assemble. However, they don't link into > a BIOS rom. Something is missing. >
If your looking at the same file I am, the makefile is bios.mak, its an nmake makefile.
Adrian Sloan aasloan@cyberhighway.net
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