On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:24:12PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Why does VirtualBox keep relying on the OpenWatcom provider? There's bcc > and faucc.
AFAIK, VirtualBox upstream decided to use non-standard OpenWatcom extensions. > QEMU's SeaBIOS is compiled with GCC (but looking at the source, all the > 16-bit code is in asm statements). If Sybase doesn't provide a new > license, I think it's better to spend some effort in porting the BIOS to > something that doesn't require OpenWatcom. These days, most non-historic operating systems can boot on EFI, meaning that even failing to ship a 16-bit BIOS could be reasonable. Meow! -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy.
