Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > >> You can in the emulator redirect I/O port access to a function. Write the > >> code to handle read/write on those ports and use the emulate_counter to drive > > >> the clock value. > > Let me ask this quick question. Does the emulator restrict port I/O to > > just the resources on a particular VGA device? If not that is something > > we need to do to implement to ensure we flush these kinds of issues > > into the open and ensure the emulator is portable. > > No. It allows full access to all IO ports. Otherwise it would have never been > able to get to the system timer.
I was afraid of that. > So not only will it have to emulate x86 instructions it will have to emulate > some of the generic x86 hardware setup. Exactly. But in this case emulation is more predictable than making certain your hardware is setup in a legacy conforming mode. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
