Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Feb 28 13:21:01 CET 2005
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:02:29AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 sherlock at vsnl.com wrote:
> > Any pointers? my mail archive does not throw up aything.
>
> it's complex. You have to compile the emulator with romcc, and then romcc
> uses the standard bios as the target. It would be a heroic hack!
>
> But, at the end, we would have the ability to run the fuctory BIOS from
> power-on under emulation and work out all the chip secrets.
I think a two computer solution might be easier. If one can get early
serial on the target machine, then a small romcc program could read
commands from the serial port, execute them, and transmit back the
results. (I think I even saw an email from someone that did this in pure
assembler.)
Then, a specially modified emulator could run the original bios on a second
machine, forwarding memory reads/writes and io reads/writes through the
serial port to the target machine.
Thoughts?
-Kevin
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