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Late November work on the pre-boot loader
2025-11-30
The prior two weeks we drafted some interfaces and a rough implementation of the pre-boot loader that's based on the debugger. Because the loader is a stripped down build of the debugger, many of its features come for free (or almost so), including:
- Chain loading of other kernels
- Script file reading
- Serial terminal I/O
- Expression evaluator
- Subset of the Extensions for lDebug infrastructure
- Memory dump and edit commands
- Dump interrupts command
- Port I/O commands
- Command line buffer related commands
No regulation post this week (mid late November)
This week I have only worked a little on the new loader, but I haven't uploaded any of these changes yet. I expect to upload some work within the tail of November.
Idiom: Make from scratch
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Idiom on long letters
As Mark Twain famously maybe said but probably not:
Sorry to write you such a long letter; if I had more time I'd have written a short one.
Mark Twain
Rowan J Coleman, 1min 50s into the video "Movies Are Better Than TV Shows and I'm Tired of Pretending They're Not"
