Fw: Re: Further modularization ideas

[Victor Kirhenshtein]

Oops, of course I want to send this to list...

Regards,
Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Kirhenshtein 
To: Dave 
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Further modularization ideas
> Idea/question -
>
> Can all code be limited to using relative addressing so no linking is
> necessary? Is this possible/reasonable? It would be nice to be able to
> create a boot ROM by simply selecting blocks of code and listing the
> starting address for each block in the executors table, no make files,
> assembly, compiling or linking required.

Why not to use linking ?  OpenBIOS can come as set of object files and
special configuration tool, which creates a subset of necessary object files
and use linker to produce complete rom image from them. Such process must
not be too complicated.
> This would be a very desirable feature. A boot prom could be assembled with
> a very simple utility in any computing environment (maybe even written in
> Java for portability). You would not need to have specific compilers,
> assemblers or other development tools to assemble a collection of code,
> create a binary and  burn it into PROM.

Probably you will need at least one specific tool to burn new image into
PROM.

Regards,
Victor