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aidenn0 on May 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, wit...

IIRC it includes a macroassembler as a DSL in lisp; booting bare-metal with zero assembly is just not possible.

nineteen999 on May 23, 2019 [–]

> booting bare-metal with zero assembly is just not possible

Well that makes sense on Intel anyway, the first stage bootloader has to fit into a single 512-byte sector (the MBR) doesn't it? Not sure if this still true in these modern days of EFI.

z3phyr on May 23, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, EFI sectors are larger.

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