Hi Uwe,
Sorry, I missed this question.
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:23:54PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
What's the long-term plan? Will legacybios replace the current BOCHS BIOS in bochs also?
The bochs developers are aware of my work. However, it seems as if there aren't that many developers working on bochs. As a guess, more developers have gravitated to qemu and kvm. Looking at mailing list traffic, one will note coreboot, kvm, and qemu all have significantly higher traffic than bochs does.
Further, I'm sure some emulator developers would question the risk involved in adopting a new bios. The existing bios works fine for them - why change it? The risks are different when trying to get the bios to work on real hardware - that requires the ability to enhance and debug the bios. New development is, in my opinion, impractical with the existing asm/bcc based code.
In any case, I will continue to keep both bochs and qemu working with the bios code. Having more users for a code base makes testing and overall maintenance easier.
-Kevin