Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...

SONE Takeshi ts1 at tsn.or.jp
Sat Aug 9 13:24:01 CEST 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:23:42PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> Bochs is neat, but not simple. Maybe, however, we can make it simpler. I
> really don't want to write x86 asm at this point, however. If I do this I
> want to do it by building on the VGA BIOS stuff I wrote for 1.0.

That's what I'm intersted in doing.
Also I felt that doing this in LinuxBIOS core could be wrong direction
for the project, so I posted the first question.
I think Ron's src/extension idea makes a lot of sense.

> The VGA BIOS code in 1.0 has proven to be pretty easy to use for people,
> it's 32-bit code, and it's pretty easy to fix. Also, like the rest of 
> LinuxBIOS, it has a very small assembly bit and the rest is C. 

Yes, that is why I like this code. This can be easily and cleanly
extended, unlike Bochs BIOS.
As Eric pointed out, this approach has drawbacks, with regard to
full compatibility, it still has many advantages over the way
Bochs doing.
--
Takeshi



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