[LinuxBIOS] 440bx stuff
Johan Rydberg
jrydberg at gnu.org
Tue Nov 7 14:28:05 CET 2006
Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> writes:
>> I'm curious, is there any way to test the code through software,
>> without a flash?
>
> Not for this part of the code. Software emulations dont emulate the
> chipset well enough to find out whether your code does the right thing.
> Unless you are using SimNow to simulate an AMD system. Dont know if
> something like this exists for Intel CPUs though.
I would say that this is a shame. We really need a top-notch full
system simulator. But doing complete and correct simulation of
chipsets is hard, error prone and quite boring. Therefor emulators
like QEMU take the short path, and put in a "phony" BIOS and more or
less do not implement a northbridge at all.
What we need is a full-system simulator with the following
characteristics;
* correct,
* deterministic,
* visible device state,
* visible cpu state,
* scriptable,
* and pluggable (for profiling and coverage tools)
Note that I have not put "fast" on the list. I think that is
secondary for our use case.
~j
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