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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

The HOWTO and instructions for the assembler and link included with SW71 
explained that the files in bin86 are for use only in compiling the 
kernel.  Normally one would use gas or nasm as assemblers. Nasm is 
available also for DOS.

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Do you know Linux assembly language?   
> 
> Linux runs on several different types of CPUs.  
> For each platform, there will be a different assembly 
> language (to create bootsector and setup binaries).   
> Slackware 7.1 provides only an 8086 assembler/loader 
> (bin86), but assembler/loaders for other platforms
> are available elsewhere.
> 
> > Is there a good reference online somewhere that shows 
> > the interrupts and calls
> 
> You will find a lot of information in the Assembly-HOWTO 
> (mostly related to the 8086 platform). 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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