Stefan Reinauer wrote:
actually a real problem. I have not been able without hacks to find out the memory "layout" in qemu except the old read,write,read method of scanning through memory. Emulating enough of a northbridge would allow holes in memory and such, too.
Otoh, bochs and qemu (which per default uses the bochs bios) are concentrating a lot on userspace, even though they would suit perfectly for demonstrating and testing firmware development (besides the hardware weirdnesses)
Its probally not very well suited then for a reference implementation.
Currently there is no "simple" port framework for v2. I'm proposing creating that. Then I'll attempt to use that to do my 440bx port and see how well it works. Perhaps thats what I'll call it... "simple"