On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> I'm working on cleaning some things up like the timer code. That plus
> any feedback from you on probs running plex86, and then I'd like to
> load the new code into the CVS tree. Also, we should wait on any CVS updates
> unil Eelco changes the cvs root.
>
> -Kevin
Kevin, i will change the mailinglist name and the cvsroot next monday in
the afternoon (european time).
Eelco
>
> >From the ChangeLog:
>
> - "Kevin P. Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sat Jul 22 12:26:15 EDT 2000
> Added all the remaining devices from bochs to plex86: CDROM,
> CMOS, floppy, ...
> Moved x86 instruction emulation code to kernel/emulation.
> Corresponding header info was moved to kernel/include/emulation.h.
> Emulation files are compile with -DEMULATION; emulation.h
> exports only a few features to the monitor without this defined.
> Linux as a guest partially boots. You will need 'initrd.img' and
> 'linux.img' if you want to play with this. These are the initial
> ramdisk and kernel image files. Should panic with a HLT with IF==0.
> The VGA text framebuffer at the time of panic is dumped to the
> system log. Grab these files from the ftp site.
> Fixed some bugs.
> Added extra options to plex86.conf and code to be able to load
> Linux into memory and set up the environment as it were loaded by
> a real boot-loader.
> Rehashed the way time events are delivered. This is unfinished.
> Eventually there will be both a wall-clock time reference for
> things like GUI updates, and a VM time reference. Will fix this.
> VGA updates will be slow for now. Don't worry about this for now.
> Added a macro ANAL_CHECKS to config.h.in. By default it's on. Some
> extra safety checks are made or debugging purposes.
> There is now a bios directory. This will ultimately contain the sytem
> ROM BIOS. For now, it's a null BIOS. I changed the way the kernel
> image loading was hooked with the BIOS. It is independent now.
> VGA IO event replaying behaves like it did previously. Events are
> read from a file.
> Implemented a setjmp/longjmp for use with guest excepion handling.
> In the file kernel/include/vmsetjmp.h, you can also use the gcc
> builtin ones as well. These calls are bracketed with CLI/STI
> instructions because I was debugging stuff, and I just realized
> now that I left them in there.
> Need to move 'user/plugins/bios' to something more suitable like
> 'user/plugins/load-kernel'.
> Other stuff that I forgot about. Also, there might be some legacy
> debug stuff in there that I forgot about.
>
>
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