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  • From: Ken Martwick <kenm AT efn.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] nasm
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:35:56 -0700 (PDT)



On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote(in part):
>
> Jim tried compiling with elf on the line and got some error messages.
>
> Can you suggest what he might read to learn what changes are needed for
> linux? He thinks he needs to change interrupt calls to DOS into interrupt
> calls to linux. He uses 10h 16h 17h and 21h. Is 10h an x86 BIOS call and
> 21h a DOS call? Can you recommend a good website or a primer for
> translating between DOS and linux assembly languages?
>
Writing assembly-language programs for Linux is quite different than DOS.
To begin with, all Linux system calls use interrupt 80h. A good place to
find a lot of information about assembly-language for Linux is at
http://linuxassembly.org.
Ken Martwick




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