[LinuxBIOS] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator

[Jordan Crouse]

On 09/11/07 12:46 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> On 11/9/07, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
> > By popular request, this is a patch to buildrom adding support for
> > the AMD SimNow simulator.  Basically, it patches LinuxBIOS to work
> > around a few SimNow related quirks that are currently in the
> > public version of SimNow.  The quirks themselves have been reported,
> > and hopefully will be fixed in future releases.
> >
> > What is SimNow, and why does it rock, you might ask?  SimNow (TM) is
> > a processor simulator that we have developed at AMD.  Its a great way
> > to simulate the processor / chipset boot process and develop LinuxBIOS
> > and payloads, because it features an integrated debugger, and its easy
> > to fix when you brick the thing (just hit reset).  There is a public
> > version here:
> >
> > http://developer.amd.com/simnow.jsp
> >
> > For the more commercial customers out there, there is also a NDA
> > version that has support for more processors (contact your friendly
> > AMD representative for more information).  I'll put this information
> > on the wiki as well, for posterity.
> >
> > Myles and other SimNow users - let me know if this works.
> 
> It doesn't work for me yet.
> 1. It still resets (I comment out the actual soft reset, not the
> needs_reset calculation when I do it)

hmmm - I just build a ROM and ran it on the public version, with
cheetah_1p_jh.bsd, and it worked fine.  Which BSD are you using?

Jordan