environment. As a first step use it to skip some networking module tests.
- link BOCHS.EXE with MSVCRT if MSVC plugin support is enabled (building DLL
plugins with nmake still not possible - VS2008Ex workspace package coming soon)
- updated some messages for NE2000, PCI and USB
support compiles and links fine and the main object files for the plugin DLLs
are created. Since the gui and iodev makefiles are not ready yet, the link
stage must be done manually. Support for the search path defined in
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH should be added when the DLL plugins compile and work.
The ACPI support is always automatically compiled in if PCI is compiled in.
The ACPI still could be disabled using .bochsrc 'plugin_ctrl' option.
Updated CHANGES and docs as well.
DAC2 is sent to the lowlevel sound module. DAC1 and sound input (ADC) are not
yet supported. Also unsupported: CODEC (mixer), UART (MIDI) and legacy support.
Sound module selection in configure script now no longer depends on SB16 and
uses autodetection only.
- fixed segfault when saving bochsrc
--enable-vbe is now deprecated and the symbols BX_SUPPORT_VBE and
BX_SUPPORT_PCIVGA have been removed. To enable VBE support, the bochsrc option
"vga: extension=" must be set to "vbe". If PCI is present, you can assign the
"pcivga" device to a PCI slot.
strtoull is widely used by Bochs but osdep.cc method is NOT working correctly for all cases
I occasinally saw it with MSDEV. But MSDEV supports this function natively
TODO: replace osdep.cc function as well
recent version of Slirp with Debian patches applied. On a Linux host the
guest OS can access the internet without running Bochs with root privileges.
TODO:
* rewrite the DHCP part of eth_vnet.cc that it can be used here, too
* Slirp doesn't compile on 64-bit Linux with GCC 4.5
* WIN32 is not supported yet
code and the generic USB stuff. Up to now, in plugin mode each host controller
staticly links all this stuff with the plugin library. So it existed twice and
e.g. it wasn't possible to create a unique serial number for disks/cdroms
connected to different HCs. Some other sanity checks could be added now, too.
- Added a register mechanism for the USB device init function in the main
devices code.
- TODO: Some other device plugins could be fixed the same way: network devices
(sharing ethernet modules), harddrive & usb_msd (sharing hdimage and
cdrom)
