This parameter defines the file name for the flash BIOS config space loaded
startup if existing and saved on exit if modified. The Bochs BIOS doesn't
use this feature yet. Updated 'romimage' option documentation.
If the last char of an argument is a colon, equal sign or comma and there is
at least one more argument, then concatenate these arguments to one and pass
it to parse_line_unformatted().
These changes only have an effect when using a BIOS image designed for
real hardware (tested with asus_p6np5.bin). When using Bochs BIOS no
data will be saved / restored, since the 'flash_modified' value is
always set to 'false'. Saving ESCD data on exit is not implemented yet,
but it shouldn't be hard to do.
- Added CMOS image options to runtime menu (except RTC init).
- Fixed default size of Bochs CMOS RAM (s.max_reg).
- Fixed bochsrc parse to make 'rtc_init' parameter work.
- In textconfig now using SERIES_ASK for CMOS image options.
- Show message box while restoring hardware state.
- Set modeless message box handle to NULL after destroying it.
- Reset all config options to default before restoring config.
- Fixed CMOS RTC value after restore if in 12-hour-mode.
- Fixed possible segfault in the plugins code caused by Voodoo plugin in VGA mode
(found at restore code testing).
Enabling `assert`s in Debug MSVC builds (removing of `NDEBUG` defines)
allows to catch more bugs.
No changes were made to `BX_ASSERT` handling.
Also I did not touched `vs2019-plugins` because it looks broken for me.
This change allows to build Windows binaries without dependencies on
toolchain-specific libraries (like `libc++.dll`).
It allows to perform version updates by copying of single `bochs.exe`,
without the need for searching and distribution of linked DLLs.
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Co-authored-by: Volker Ruppert <Volker.Ruppert@t-online.de>
In addition to release, nothing and everything, I have added "i686" for the
maximum possible i686 config and "x86-64" for the minimal 64-bit cpu config.
by Michele Giacomone
Detailed description:
-Observed issues
Due to some limitations only dates between 1980 and 2038 can be
used in a reliable way.
Also, bochs incorrectly assumes a linear correspondence between
the data returned by the <time.h> functions localtime() and
mktime(), and isn't setting the latter properly.
Bochs keeps its internal time value dependent to these functions
after setup, assuming that their internal settings won't change
on the go - which is not the case.
In my OS, and in my timezone, this leads to incorrect startup values
for 5 months each year and unreliable values if the simulation is
kept going for a long time. (a feedback between localtime() and
mktime() is created which keeps shifting back the time)
Also, the RTC simulation is not realistic since the clock fixes
itself across DST changes, without updating any DST related flag,
a behavior that no guest OS expects.
-Proposed fix
This is implemented in such way that no bochs' previous behavior
is changed, a part from the broken ones, with legacy in mind
== the user can keep using bochs exactly as before knowing nothing
of this patch
+Make the internal s.timeval variable a Bit64s, so it can fit all
values that the cmos can correctly represent, reported below:
MIN setting -62167219200 => 0000/01/01 SAT 0:00:00
MAX BCD setting 253402300799 => 9999/12/31 FRI 23:59:59
MAX BIN setting 745690751999 => 25599/12/31 FRI 23:59:59
And then fix each reference to these so it can handle such values
And make bochs correctly wrap around for under/overflows, so that
only the most significant bits of the century are lost.
+Do the same thing to the bochs time0 parameter, so all the above
values can be chosen at startup (despite being now legal values,
1 and 2 will still be treated as "local" and "utc"). Note that
normally only BCD settings are valid since bochs' CMOS defaults
to such operating mode - the only way to use the binary range
is by loading a cmos memory map.
+Make the internal s.timeval variable independent from external
factors. This means providing a small set of time handling
functions, contained in "iodev/utctime.h", which must work in
any environment in which bochs compiles, accessing no external
resource. This also means that after startup, s.timeval will only
be changed internally, and no call to the OS time functions will
be made.
+Make the internal s.timeval variable timezone independent, to
have a linear correlation between its values and valid CMOS
settings. To make it easier, s.timeval is gonna be treated as
if the current timezone was UTC: so,
- if the user selects UTC as time0, s.timeval will become current
time(NULL)
- if the user selects localtime, s.timeval will be computed as
the value which will display the same broken down time as
localtime(&now)
- if the user inputs a time formatted string the proper s.timeval
to displayed will be easily calculated,
- if the user inputs a starting time value, s.timeval will be
computed as the value which will display the same broken down
time as localtime(&user_input) to ensure the same operation as
before.
A "tz=utc" is displayed when bochs prints out the current time
value, to warn users about the difference in meaning between the
internally kept time value and the value they can set through
the "time0=" parameter. This might be changed to communicate
instead the time value they can input to get the same setting,
but performing such calculation (except for the startup time)
suffers from all the mktime()/localtime() problems listed above
so I did not do it.
The range of "time0" is automatically adjusted so all users in
all time zones can set any legal value despite "time0=" having a
local meaning.
A thorough explanation of what I did and why can be found in the
"iodev/utctime.h" library header.
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Co-authored-by: Stanislav Shwartsman <sshwarts@users.sourceforge.net>
Co-authored-by: Volker Ruppert <Volker.Ruppert@t-online.de>
still missing : UMWAIT/TPAUSE should set CF flag if it was using OS
deadline and woken up after deadline (i.e. not from monitored store)
also not clear in the spec: should UWAITX/TPAUSE always wait until
deadline due to 'while(tsc<deadline)' statement ?
+include small fixes for AMD's MONITORX/MWAITX
