testbios and the system timer

[ron minnich]

On 8 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> > You can in the emulator redirect I/O port access to a function. Write the 
> > code to handle read/write on those ports and use the emulate_counter to 
> > drive the clock value.
> 
> Let me ask this quick question.  Does the emulator restrict port I/O to
> just the resources on a particular VGA device?   If not that is something
> we need to do to implement to ensure we flush these kinds of issues
> into the open and ensure the emulator is portable.

well, yes if you wish it to. That stuff is pretty configurable. Ollie is 
much more current than me on it -- he's hacking it.

ron