- moved 'user_shortcut' option to the keyboard option
- added new bx_param_c option value BOCHSRC_HIDDEN for parameters that should
only be available in the config interface. The new bochsrc option save and
parser function skip parameters with this flag set. This is useful for
parameters that will be set from the parser in a different way.
- save keyboard bochsrc line using the parameter list directly
- parse keyboard bochsrc options (except 'keymap') using the parameter list
- user shortcut: old-style syntax has already been removed
- increased minimum value for the keyboard's 'serial_delay'
- removed parameter "present" and use the new drive type "none" instead
- re-implemented cdrom media status parameter as a bx_param_enum_c
- TODO: change floppy media status parameter type to be consistent
- fixed bochsrc line after a "raw byte" string parameter
- changed parameter name "macaddr" to "mac" (same as bochsrc option parameter)
- skip disabled parameters when building the bochsrc line
- added "multiline" switch to select the output format (one or multiple lines)
- renamed siminterface method and use it in the network devices code
I observed ~5% emulation slowdown ... thinking about possible mitigations
this fixes TLB issue with SMAP and SMEP features.
these features introduce a new behavior when page can be inaccessible by System (CPL=0).
Current behavior is accessBits was not supporting it but legacy (from Bochs 2.3.6) was.
The wrong behavior can be observed if user access a user page and system access the same page later.
user access is fine and pass SMEP/SMA checks and stores the translation in TLB.
the system access will hit the TLB and nobody could detect that system cannot access that page.
- renamed config parameter "i440fx_support" to "enabled"
- new config parameter "chipset" added (current choices "i430FX" and "i440FX")
- don't load ACPI support if the i430FX chipset is selected
- select register values for the core PCI devices depending on the chipset
- USB UHCI must be connected to a PCI slot if the i430FX chipset is used
- rombios changes to make the i430FX chipset work
- TODO #1: implement limitation to 1 cpu and 128 MB RAM for the i430FX chipset
- TODO #2: verify register behaviour of both chipsets
- read PCI confAddr value from the devices code for debugger output
- PCI confData value isn't needed at all (changes by each read / write access)
- PCI framework methods don't need to be virtual
- PCI slot configuration, memory and i/o BAR registration, PCI i/o space
handlers now present in devices.cc
- configure: E1000 emulation and USB support need PCI
- vga: fixes for the non-PCI case
I am copiling using Cygwin+mingw and cnfigure script by default doesn't find and GUI library and therefore I supply --with-win32.
But seems it is not enough to get GUI debugger compiled - Makefile was missing win32_enh_dbg_osdep.cc
- renamed trigger_timer() methods to refresh_display()
- new argument 'redraw' added to force a refresh of the entire screen
(used in snapshot mode)
- siminterface method refresh_vga() now checks if the Bochs gui init is complete
- use SIM->refresh_vga() in some more cases
Bugfix: VMX: VmEntry should do TPR Virtualization (TPR Shadow + APIC Access Virtualization case is affected) and even could possibly cause TPR Threshold VMEXIT
- graphics_tile_info() split into a common and specific part
- store snapshot mode in structure bx_svga_tileinfo_t
- in snapshot mode, display adapters copy raw data to buffer
- rewrite of the trigger_timer() code to make it work in all cases
- added new class bx_nonvga_device_c to make forwarding refresh requests to the
Voodoo adapter possible
API) moved to the gui code. Splitted graphics_tile_update() in a common and a
specific part. The common part handles the snapshot case if active. As a side
effect, the snapshot feature now works for CGA modes, too. Fixed palette colors
in 8 bpp snapshots.
the display adapter code. When ready, the common gui code should handle it
completely. The snapshot handler should set a flag 'snapshot_mode' and then it
should force a display update. The graphics update code should be redirected to
some code that 'draws' to a snapshot buffer. These first steps are done:
- store some guest display settings in the gui code (text / graphics switch,
x / y resolution and bpp)
- split 8 bpp palette update code in a common and a specific part and store the
palette values in the gui code
Of course no true random numbers will be generated - use standard "C" rand() function as stub.
In future it will be possible to improve (using another random generator) or even use real rdrand/rdseed intrinsics
These hdimage modes are now supported: flat, sparse, growing, vmware3, vmware4
und vpc. The image mode is auto-detected, so no change of configuration syntax
is necessary (TODO: documentation update). Example:
ata0-master: type=disk, mode=volatile, path=vmware4-test.img
- wxdialog: use symbols and allow log action ACT_IGNORE for LOGLEV_ERROR
- wxdialog: removed obsolete pass event
- TODO: fix win32dialog stuff in a similar way
- redolog class: added support for opening redolog file in read-only mode
- open backups for header check in read-only mode (growing, undoable, volatile, vpc)
Minor speedup (of 1-2%) was observed due to new implementation
Remove obsolete dbg_take_irq function and dbg_force_interrupt function from CPU code, the functions were not working properly anyway
type of the r/o disk for the undoable / volatile mode. The format check code
is currently written for flat, sparse and growing images. The undoable and
volatile mode now cause a panic if the r/o image mode is unsupported.
- TODO #1: rewrite the header checks for vmware3, vmware4 and vpc images to make
them usable for autodetection.
- TODO #2: add support for other types of r/o disks in undoable/volatile mode.
- TODO #3: add an image mode 'auto' for the supported types (NOTE: unknown images
can be treated as flat ones if their size is multiple of 512).
- don't enable Voodoo mode if hSync or vSync are still 0 to avoid Bochs crash
(division by zero error)
- handle PCI register 0x40 (initEnable)
- fixed reported display size
time if requested (reduces code duplication)
- 'vpc' image mode: moved header check to a separate function that opens the
file, checks header/footer and returns disk type (if requested)
- implemented restore function for 'vpc' mode images
- gui: updated yes/no dialog message after saving state
- save/restore documentation update (TODO: developer doc)
be set for "true", but variable "lfb_enabled" wasn't correctly set up.
- TODO: check the whole Bochs code for the correct usage of variables saved
with bx_param_bool_c.
On win32 the native CopyFile() function is used. The restore function should
work this way: coherency check (if necessary), close current image, copy saved
image from restore path (overwrites existing one), finally re-open image.
- implemented restore function for 'flat' and 'undoable' mode images
- set timestamp of r/o disk in volatile mode, too (for save/restore support)
- TODO: save state function for the remaining image modes, restore support
undoable, volatile)
- TODO: save state function for the remaining image modes, restore support
- save/restore: when saving binary data to a file, use the full parameter path
(except "bochs." prefix) as the file name to avoid overwriting duplicates
dummy parameter and it's save/restore handlers. Currently only the save
support is implemented and the specific save function is only written for
flat mode images (copies whole disk image file to the save/restore folder).
- TODO #1: implement save function for the other disk image modes
- TODO #2: add restore support (replace disk image file with the one from the
save/restore folder)
is based on a patch originally designed for DOSBox. Currently only the Voodoo1
adapter model can be emulation. The emulation is currently slow, but we intend
to clean up and optimize the code. Running the 3D engine in a separate thread
is also planned. To compile with Voodoo support the configure option
"--enable-voodoo" must be used. Then the device can be activated with
"plugin_ctrl: voodoo=1" in bochsrc or on the command line. The device will be
assigned automatically to a PCI slot unless you do that manually. A specific bochsrc
option to select the adapter model will be added when the code has support for it.
fixed enabling of ADX extensions in generic CPUID when enabled through .bochsrc
Small code cleanups on the way to implementation of APIC Registers Virtualization features disclosed in recent Intel SDM rev043
- Cirrus adapter needs to set the last resolution and BPP for VGA override
- TODO #1: move display adapter code to iodev subdirectory 'display'
- TODO #2: add 3dfx Voodoo Graphics emulation
