Christian Aichinger, le Fri 08 Sep 2006 22:44:51 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:59:57AM +0200, LENART Janos wrote: > > > The problem is that in some circumstances, blind people _DO_ > > > need loadlin for being able to install/boot linux. That's one of > > > the reason why it is still provided on installation CDs (btw, > > > Janos, could you at last apply the patch I suggested for bug > > > #338318?). > > Could someone please clarify this a bit? I've had a short look at > the code some time ago, but it looks like quite a bit of work. > > And honestly I'm not fully convinced it's really worth all that > effort just to save a long-forgotten program.
Yasm people are interested in TASM support anyway. I'm almost finished with it, I just need to tidy it a bit and fix bugs. I just didn't take the time to do this yet. > > >Yasm is to provide a tasm-compatible assembler, but it is not ready yet > > >(it is apparently in active development, though). > > Please, keep me posted if you are familiar with the project. > > I don't remember exactly anymore, but when I looked at it yasm > didn't look very promising for porting loadlin to it. Yasm is just a generic assembler that supports both nasm and gas syntax, and is almost ready for tasm. Samuel
