* ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [030812 16:06]:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, ron minnich wrote:
compiling v86bios.vm86 from above I get everything into 20k.
not the emulator, surely. Just the bios support code, right?
yes.
The x86 emulator need to support the needs of an expansion rom bios is ca. 150K at best.
The BIOS support code is tiny -- I'm not surprised at 20k.
But that 20k is all you ever need on x86 machines. the 150k are still useful for non-x86 platforms out there where 150k of flash are probably cheaper than buying hardware that is reported to work without option rom. Most non-x86 platforms come with bigger eeproms than average x86 machines anyways. Gzip on testbios (full blown x86emu + bios support code) shrinks the size from 150k down to 53k here.
Stefan