Colin Davidson wrote:
> > Also, in the keyboard dimension, I know the bochs folks did some work
> > on this, including adding international keyboard support. As part
> > of a new PCI spec, it would be nice to work towards a sharing of the
> > IO device emulation with bochs (if the current developers agree).
> >
> > Since you are now the plex86 keyboard guy :^) can you give
> > me an idea what is best to do. Should we start with the bochs
> > keyboard code or plex86 + international patches?
> >
> > -Kevin
>
> Are you all sure this is a good idea? PCI cards are typically high-volume
> items (graphics cards, SCSI adapters, LAN cards and such). The mouse and
> keyboard are almost never on the PCI bus (though you can get USB versions).
>
> Why not start with something reasonably simple, well known and supported
> under Windows (probably the most desired guest OS)? For graphics that would
> be probably an S3, but an NE2000 would be simpler and also useful...
I don't mean that we should move the ISA oriented stuff to the
PCI bus (so to speak). Just that as part of a software interface
to handle extra PCI stuff, I'll probably change the current interface and
make it more modular. For example, perhaps we could make each device
a separate plugin rather than one big bochs plugin.
The first rev for example, would having nothing on the PCI bus.
But some framework (including some BIOS init) would make it
possible for people to more eaily write emulation for IO
componetry.
-Kevin
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