On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:59:57AM +0200, LENART Janos wrote: > > The problem is that in some circumstances, blind people _DO_ > > need loadlin for being able to install/boot linux. That's one of > > the reason why it is still provided on installation CDs (btw, > > Janos, could you at last apply the patch I suggested for bug > > #338318?).
Could someone please clarify this a bit? I've had a short look at the code some time ago, but it looks like quite a bit of work. And honestly I'm not fully convinced it's really worth all that effort just to save a long-forgotten program. > Sorry, I am trying to get the situation clean, I do not want to upload > new version before that. I am hoping to get nasm to compile it. I've ported some 100 lines of the code to nasm, but it looks troublesome, since nasm doesn't support a full `.org` directive. IMHO it is more promising to port it to gas (with the intel syntax switch). > >Yasm is to provide a tasm-compatible assembler, but it is not ready yet > >(it is apparently in active development, though). > Please, keep me posted if you are familiar with the project. I don't remember exactly anymore, but when I looked at it yasm didn't look very promising for porting loadlin to it. Cheers, Christian Aichinger
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