Re: [coreboot] [U-Boot] u-boot on x86 reloaded

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:35:46PM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote:
> I'm in the middle of re-writing the entire real-mode switch code and
>
> real-mode support in U-Boot. The new code allows you to write real-mode
> code in C - I even have the Linux real-mode printf ported :) This will make
> writing your own 'BIOS' code for your board a lot easier

FYI - SeaBIOS ( http://seabios.org/ ) uses gcc for real-mode code.
Indeed, the name "SeaBIOS" is a play on words - it's a BIOS written in
C code.

-Kevin