Re: [coreboot] [RFC] port bochs-bios to gcc

[Stefan Reinauer]

Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 2/22/08, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> > FYI.  I'm interested in reviving the ADLO effort.  I sent the
> >  following email to the bochs developers mailing list.
>
> I think one of the reasons why they wrote the BIOS in asm is because
> it makes the result code small, as the size is limited in 64KB. What
> do you do to make sure that the ported code stays within the limit?

plus, some addresses in those 64k are hard wired to specific interrupt 
handlers. Quite some code out there assumes this.

It's still possible, but it wont be completely clean and easy.