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diff --git a/README.build-process b/README.build-process index 19edfcf..12158d6 100644 --- a/README.build-process +++ b/README.build-process @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ affect of position independent code. A 16 bit loader is prepended to memtest86 so it can be loaded from a floppy, or from lilo. In restructuring the build process I had several goals. Maintainability and -comprehsibility of the build process. Simplicity of the toolset. And the +comprehensibility of the build process. Simplicity of the toolset. And the ability to build images bootable by both the legacy x86 bootloader, and images bootable by bootloaders that directly load static ELF images. -With the ability to proecess relocation records, memtest.bin has been +With the ability to process relocation records, memtest.bin has been reduced in size from 84480 bytes to 49308 bytes. And now only requires one copy of memtest86. A reduction in size of 35K. And the build process can now ignore the size of memtest86. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ when memtest86 is relocated, and memtest86 can be relocated to any address. The one thing to watch out for is pointers to data inside of memtest86. Except for constant pointers to static data there is not enough information to generate relocation records for pointers so they will not change when memtest86 is -relocated, which might lead to nasty surpises. +relocated, which might lead to nasty surprises. Eric Biederman <ebiederman@lnxi.com> |