On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 02:56, Richard Smith wrote: > > What i've noticed that the emulator causes the Vbios to get stuck in > some delay loops. Eventually it probally would exit but its currently > making my logs huge and causing the knashing of much teeth. > > So I'm thinking that the emulator needs to intercept reads and writes to > the system timer and provide a fake timer that increments 1 tick per > some x instructions emulated. And hopfully the chips and the bioses > that need this won't mind that the actuall delay is longer than what was > requested. >
The original emulator in xfree86 use the system's gettimeofdate to emulate the timer. Since we are not going to have that function in linuxbios, I removed it. Probably we need an other way to emulate the timer. Ollie > Any comments before I hack this in? > > I'm off to bed. > > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
