This is a patch from Volker Ruppert <Volker.Ruppert@t-online.de>, who
comments: "The fdisk command reports an unusable second harddisk if the cdrom
is enabled. This patch helps, but I don't know if it is the right way."
> I have inspected the header of output file and several sample MIDI files. I
> have found two different bytes in the header. After I have changed this
> bytes Winamp could play the output file, but it showed a track time of
> 0:00. The Windows Media Player still doesn't like the file.
in an output format similar to gdb (when you do info all-registers).
Also, if you do "info all" you get the CPU registers and the FPU
registers.
- added bx_cpu_c method called fpu_print_regs, which is implemented
in wmFPUemu_glue.cc
posted to bochs-developers on Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:08:45 +0100
David Haslam wrote:
> I have been looking at the keyboard problem with Minix, which for
> those that haven't tried Minix results in every key press giving the
> response: ^@
>
> I am aware of the comments in the changelog that suggest removing 2
> keyboard ACKs in iodev/keyboard.cc, but this is a bit of a hack,
> (which is presumably why it was never incorporated).
>
> The problem seems to be that the Minix keyboard driver doesn't obey
> the rules, and Bochs doesn't model the 8042 accurately. When issuing
> commands to set the LEDs, Minix polls the 8042 output data register
> waiting for an ACK even though the OBF flag isn't set.
>
> Bochs returns zero under these circumstances, which seems to
> trigger obscure behaviour that messes up the Minix internal
> keyboard queue. I don't fully understand why Minix breaks, but I
> think the fact that the ACK generates an interrupt, and Minix treats
> it as a scan code also has something to do with it.
>
> In any case, I believe, the fix is for Bochs to return the output
> buffer contents, regardless of whether the OBF flag (called outb in
> Bochs) is set.
>
> I expect the real hardware allows the register to be read at anytime,
> and with this fix we are modelling the behaviour of the hardware more
> accurately.
>
> I have tested it with Minix 2.0.0. Also DOS 6.22 still works after this fix.
> Does anyone think this will break anything else?
>
> This diff is against the latest CVS of iodev/keyboard.cc, version 1.29
> The last part of the diff is a minor fix to an unrelated debug print.
