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Message-ID: <463189D3.3070805@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:27:47 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: Michael McConnell <soruk@...dani.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:
>
>> A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
>> though. I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.
>
> Is this using the .code16gcc? Or are you thinking of some other
> technique. Requiring another C compiler to build the kernel would
> be a pain to use.
.code16gcc was what I was using. There is a GSoC project that I'm
mentoring to get 16-bit support for gcc, that will be possible to
eventually migrate to (for code size) if/when it gets implemented and
gets pushed out far enough, but that's for the future.
-hpa
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