Directory structure for x86emu

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Fri Jan 7 05:30:00 CET 2005


* Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> [050107 16:26]:
> For scsi, do we need the 'runtime' part as well as the 'init' part ?
> The emulator has support to install an int handler (the real thing
> from the BIOS image, not our C code emulation) and call the int
> handler. 

This is exactly what we need.

> Since in the LinuxBIOS, the emulator uses virtual==physical 
> address, we can just keep the scsi bios in the memory and do some int13
> call if we have to.

There should be some streaming driver such as ROM_STREAM, IDE_STREAM or
FS_STREAM: INT13_STREAM which allows reading a kernel image from
disk. I would guess this allows to use a whole couple of other devices
that "misuse" int13 to become bootable as well.

Stefan.





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