FYI: Merge in progress...

Richard Smith rsmith at bitworks.com
Tue Oct 19 13:58:00 CEST 2004


Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> actually a real problem. I have not been able without hacks to find out
> the memory "layout" in qemu except the old read,write,read method of
> scanning through memory. Emulating enough of a northbridge would allow
> holes in memory and such, too.
> 
> Otoh, bochs and qemu (which per default uses the bochs bios) are
> concentrating a lot on userspace, even though they would suit perfectly
> for demonstrating and testing firmware development (besides the hardware
> weirdnesses) 

Its probally not very well suited then for a reference implementation.

Currently there is no "simple" port framework for v2.  I'm proposing 
creating that.  Then I'll attempt to use that to do my 440bx port and 
see how well it works.  Perhaps thats what I'll call it... "simple"

-- 
Richard A. Smith





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