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Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features
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Jim C. Brown |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:42:43 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:57:21PM +0100, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> About the BIOS question we should have a modular BIOS.
>
> Like AWARD, AMI, Phoenix, etc, BIOS, that have support for a great variety
> of chipsets and CPUs, and are compiled with required modules for each
> motherboard.
>
A modular BIOS designed for qemu is ok (e.g. VGABios vs Bochs BIOS vs
some other hand-written BIOS) but supporting a commercial BIOS written
for actual hardware is another matter. This is very difficult as such a BIOS
will expect different hardware in different places. Not to mention adding
support
for different types of motherboards/ROM chips. Its easier to just fix the
current qemu BIOS.
P.S.
Someone is working on that iirc.... posted to the list a while back. They
loaded qemu directly from a bootloader (so there was no host OS, only a guest
OS) and did some hacking so qemu could access the host BIOS directly. So it
is possible, just very hard.
> > I don't think that the chipset particularly cares what
> > extended instructions the CPU can execute... However, BIOS
> > support we are definitely lacking. IIRC, the BIOS we are
> > using doesn't do any PCI setup
> > - so we rely on some code in pc.c and pci.c to make the
> > chipset look configured and to set up the BARs.
> >
> > --
> > Antony T Curtis <address@hidden>
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Hetz Ben Hamo, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Antony T Curtis, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features,
Jim C. Brown <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Hetz Ben Hamo, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Antony T Curtis, 2004/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/10