Jon Smirl wrote:
[...]
BenH has source for a working emu86. I would wait on that project
until klibc has been merged.
A while ago I worked on cleaning up the emulator that was first written
by SciTech, and then used by X and LinuxBIOS people.
The .text size of the emulator went from 59478 to 38225 bytes, but I bet
I could shrink it even further. The emulator was a bit optimized for
speed, but IMHO we want it optimized for size.
If I can get the emulator to use, say, 20kB, wouldn't it be better to
have it in the kernel instead of as user-space helper?
This would allow the graphics driver to call BIOS functions as if they
were regular functions, i.e., you could call on a BIOS function to set
the graphics mode and continue execution when the BIOS function completes.
A user mode helper will always be more cumbersome from a programming
POV. Not to mention that it would be a lot easier for distro maintainers...
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