Here goes...........
I was wondering if the following would be an amicable way to deal with
breaking up the bochs plug-in (and for making coding of hardware emulation
plug-ins & drivers more like real hardware/firmware & drivers....):
|
monitor | Stuff in user-land (feeds back into the monitor when
space | needed--otherwise uses host OS services)
|
| /-->memory (needed or handled already?)
nexus<--->bridge<---|
| \-->"PCI-like" unit (I wanted to use a class--but screw
that)
--------- ^
|
-------------------------------------------
| | | |
\/ \/ \/ \/
ISA device PCI bridge Super I/O unit VGA/SVGA
enhanced
emulations "emulation" (most of the video
controller
| ^ bochs plug-in)
emulation
| | ^ ^
| ------------- |-->EIDE |--output to
| | | | handler | X-like
GUI
| \/ \/ |-->serial |--output to
| Ethernet Other PCI | redirector | curses
GUI
| Stuff? |-->parallel |--raw
frambuffer?
| | redirector |
|-->Soundblaster emulation? |-->PS/2 mouse \--others?
| | handler
\-->others? \-->keyboard handler
The "PCI-like" unit would pass signals "raw" in a way like a real PCI-bus
based modern architecture north/south bridge PC/AT system. The bridge unit
would be a "clean up" so that the nexus could keep working with minimal
change involved. Everything else would work much like it does on a real PC.
The advantage of this method would be that parts could be
added/subtracted/substituted much in the same way that they are on a real
PC--using much the same interface that the real PC does (something that
people are familiar coding around).
Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated......
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Kevin Lawton
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plex86] About plug-in structure..........
>
>
> Drew Northup wrote:
>
> > Drew Northup, N1XIM
> > P.S. If the ASCII-art doesn't work out I'll hack up a GIF.....
>
> Oh, even another ASCII chart without tabs.
>
> -Kevin
>
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