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- TODO status update for Bochs 2.3

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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Should we accept donations ? What could we do with the money ?
- bounties for somebody write optimized win9x/NT/XFree/linux/*BSD
drivers for our vga/net/ide cards
- other ?
Status in Bochs 2.2.5:
Status in Bochs 2.3:
No decisions about this yet.
1. Speed
@ -48,10 +48,12 @@ the new card will be detected automatically.
This will allow for example developing of plugins separately from Bochs.
2.3 Michael Brown wrote :
If the configuration interface is to be reworked, could we also make it so
that plugins are self-contained, rather than needing to pollute main.cc
that plugins are self-contained, rather than needing to pollute config.cc
with code for defining and parsing plugin-specific options
Status:
These items are not done yet.
A little bit of the basic work is done now: The config parameter handling has
been rewritten to a parameter tree and user-defined bochsrc options are now
supported. The main plugin architecture rewrite is not done yet.
3. PCI host<->guest proxy
Being able to use a real pci device from inside Bochs would be a
@ -60,7 +62,8 @@ documented cards, or one could even use a real spare vga card.
Frank Cornellis has done a great job on this subject, and we began
integrating his changes.
Status:
The pcidev device is present in CVS, but the status is unknown.
The pcidev device is present in CVS and it has been updated for the new PCI
infrastructure, but the new code is untested yet.
4. Subdirectories in iodev
The iodev directory contains the various implemented iodevice.
@ -130,8 +133,8 @@ Not done yet.
8.5 extend redolog-disk specification to add coherency check of the flat
image file, by storing its fstat-mtime field in the redolog.
Status:
Autodetection works for flat type image created with bximage.
The other items are not done yet.
Autodetection now works for all image types created with bximage and vmware3
images. The other items are not done yet.
9. net
9.1 bootable ethernet rom ?
@ -164,7 +167,8 @@ There is a very nice parameter table in 3dfx banshee document
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/pdfs/Banshee_2d_spec.PDF
see also http://www.xyzzy.claranet.de/dos/vgacrt.c
Status:
Not done yet.
The new version 0.6a of the LGPL'd VGABIOS has minimal support for the video
parameter table.
12. Optimized Guest drivers still needed : VGA, IDE, NET
We have a specific VGA driver for winNT/2K, but still
@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ e.g. the main menu is static while it could be generated at run-time...
the main menu text lives somewhere in a file... while it should be generated
at run-time by iterating the main menu objects
Status:
Not done yet.
The config options handling has been rewritten to a parameter tree.
19. Save/Restore
We already have a specific branch in the cvs with a save/restore
@ -248,7 +252,8 @@ restart the emulation, or create "checkpoints" to restart the
emulation from a known state. We can also give a look on how
integrate commitable harddisks with the save/restore strategy.
Status:
Not done yet.
Save/restore of config and log options and the hardware state is supported now.
Harddisk images are not handled yet.
20. ACPI support
Bochs 2.2.6 is the first real SMP release, with changes made in Bochs 2.2.6