f-cpu/fromfs/README
created dim mar 17 06:03:33 GMT 2002 by whygee@f-cpu.org

This directory contains some utilities for making
and reading fromfs images where the boot routine will
seek additional modules and instructions.

Currently (v0.1, first working but reduced version),
the images are generated by NASM but i'm working on
YGASM to add the necessary functions. NASM is cool
but not f-cpu compliant ;-)

There's also some code for verifying that an archive
is compliant with the current library (which only contains
the format definitions in fromfs.h and a fetching
code in fromfs_lib.c).

missing features are : malloc, exec, open, read and seek.
They depend on the availability of some memory management
code which is not yet available.

Other functions that can output error messages (print_char
and print_string) also depend on the availability of
a primitive I/O functionality.
