about .code16

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:52:59AM -0800, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> :     BTW,I don't find any .code16 in FreeBSD boot assembly codes;
> : Is there something else could be done to make things right? 
> : (FreeBSD3.2 on x86;/sys/boot2/*.s)
> 
> Sorry - that is out of my league.  Maybe they use a command line
> switch to force 16 bit code by default ?
> 

I believe the Linux kernel 2.4 uses binutils for the kernel loader in
the 16bit mode.

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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)