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TCCBOOT compiles and boots a Linux kernel in 15 seconds

[Posted October 27, 2004 by cook]

From:		Fabrice Bellard
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		TCCBOOT compiles and boots a Linux kernel in 15 seconds
Date:		Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:05:01 +0200


TCCBOOT is the first boot loader able to compile and boot a Linux kernel 
directly from its source code. It can compile and start booting a 
typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

TCCBOOT uses the latest version of the TinyCC C compiler, assembler and 
linker. TinyCC is an experiment to produce a very small and simple C 
compiler compatible with the GNU C compiler and binary utilities.

Availability

TCCBOOT is available at http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
TinyCC 0.9.21 is available at http://bellard.org/tcc/

Fabrice.

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