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Directions for compiling a BIOS (Optional)
By default, there should be a precompiled BIOS in the 'bios'
directory named 'BIOS-plex86-*'. You only need to grab some
extra tools if you want to compile/develop a new BIOS. If so,
here is what you should do:
- You need 'bcc'. I grabbed this from the Elks project, which
seems to be rooted at http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/.
I Downloaded http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Dev86src-0.15.1.tar.gz,
which was labeled 'version 0.15.1 (710k)'.
user-> tar xvfz Dev86src-0.15.1.tar.gz
user-> cd linux-86
user-> make bcc
user-> strip bcc/bcc-cc1
user-> cp bcc/bcc-cc1 ~/bin # you can put it anywhere you want
You can delelte the tarball and the linux-86 directory now
if you want. Only needed the 'bcc-cc1' phase of the compiler.
- You need 'as86', and 'ld86'. On my Mandrake 7.1 system, these
files where provided by the 'bin86-*' RPM package, and
were pre-installed for me given my package selections. You
may have them already on your distro. If not, download
and install packages for your system.
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