Syscalls and ABIs -- i386
One thing that I've been scratching at... Will there be any support for native Linux executables for ELKS running on i386 and higher? I am sure that this can't be too hard, even if it's limited to bcc-generated (or other) a.out executables (main use is to get rid of 64k limit where it doesn't have to forced upon you.)
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One thing that I've been scratching at... Will there be any support for native Linux executables for ELKS running on i386 and higher? I am sure
Wouldn't that be dependent on the support of the instruction set and segmentation handling of i386 or higher as opposed to the smaller instruction set and segmentation handling of 8086 & i286 ? Do you have the ABI document for an 8086 or a 286 ?
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