Greg Haerr writes: > > : Apart from anything else, as86 and ld86 are used to build the bits and pieces > : in arch/i386/boot in the main Linux kernel tree. > > I thought that the as86 and ld86 in this area came from the older, outdated bin86 > distribution. > My understanding is that these versions were limited and broken, so there was a push to replace them with the versions from the actively maintained dev86 package. Al
