Pavel Roskin:
I see no reasons to save users ... who want to compile it from
making acquaitance with the new binutils.
OKUJI Yoshinori:
I see. Your opinion sounds good to me.
Yes, he has a good point.
OKUJI Yoshinori:
the next release [of binutils] will not be released soon, at
From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the requirement for binutils
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:42:03 +0400 (EEST)
As long as binutils is free software, and no money hould be paid to
upgrade it, I see no reasons to save users (so called power-users, who
want to compile it) from making
I have been thinking about the requirement for binutils. Most people
have still been using ``old'' binutils, such as 2.8.1.0.x and
2.9.1. But we have recommened that the users should upgrade their
binutils to a beta version. Although later binutils is definitely
superior to older one because
So I want to diminish the requirement as soon as possible. There are
at least two possible ways:
1) Support any version of binutils. This means that we must assemble
the 16bits code manually like grub-0.5.
2) Don't use gas for the 16bits code any more. Instead, use nasm or
Nasm is great, but I don't think it's appropiate for GRUB.
Could you explain why it is not appropriate for GRUB?
Maybe appropiate was the wrong word; I don't have any technical arguments.
It's just that I think it's better if we don't have to force people to
install learn yet another
Thanks for your comment.
From: Peter Åstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the requirement for binutils
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:56:02 +0200 (CEST)
Nasm is great, but I don't think it's appropiate for GRUB.
Could you explain why it is not appropriate for GRUB?
become a stable version
, 1999 at 05:19:40AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
I have been thinking about the requirement for binutils. Most people
have still been using ``old'' binutils, such as 2.8.1.0.x and
2.9.1. But we have recommened that the users should upgrade their
binutils to a beta version. Although later
OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
[snip]
Any comment is welcome.
Hi,
Nasm does Intel style assembler, gas does ATT style. Awhile
ago I converted old grub 0.4 stage1 to use nasm (by hand).
I personally like nasm, even though only version 0.97 is
released under the GPL.
HTH,
--
Jeff
From: Peter Åstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the requirement for binutils
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:31:32 +0200 (CEST)
It's just that I think it's better if we don't have to force people to
install learn yet another application/tool.
I agree, but the user must upgrade/install binutils
