to be the logarithm to base 2 of the alignment, in an ELF environment n is
the actual alignment boundary; thus, adjust the directives accordingly.
Albeit the wonderful i386 architecture doesn't mind the smaller alignment in
an obvious way, it is likely to have resulted in some performance penalty
during the a.out->ELF transition.
XMS is recognized and used as temporary buffer for the kernel image.
The processor must still be in real mode at program start, so EMM386
or QEMM are not allowed. W*95 is OK.
Written by Martin Husemann (pr port-i386/3336).
Completely separated from other bootloaders for sanity.
little hacking by me. This isn't strictly identical to his 920312
release -- I've hacked it a bit -- but since we are taking over change
control it doesn't matter much.
kleink