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Add cross compiler as an exercise with some guidance and invoke linker scripts with the new toolchain

Open tuhdo opened this issue 8 years ago • 0 comments

At the moment, the book uses -m32 and -m64 and -m elf_i386 (for ld), which is not a proper way to create an operating system image for a target machine. However, for the purpose of getting to a bootable image as soon as possible, it is the quickest way. However, we cannot ignore the proper way, so it will be integrated as an exercise by:

After that, the Makefiles must be updated to use the new toolchain for invoking the linker scripts in the book.

tuhdo avatar Feb 18 '17 07:02 tuhdo