- Added helper function get_floppy_devtype_from_type().
- The floppy type option now accepts the value "none".
- Added parameter handler for "devtype" to handle the BX_FDD_NONE case.
- Cleaned up floppy options parser code.
"none" the dependent parameters cannot be set. That's why the bochsrc parser
needs to set device type first.
- Set initial device type of first floppy to '3.5" 1.44M'.
- Detect device type along with image type if necessary.
- TODO: fixes for media types like "1_44" and some more cleanup.
- Moved serial and parallel config parameter list creation to the corresponding
device code.
- Unregister serial and parallel bochsrc options in PLUGIN_FINI mode.
- Moved USB config and runtime parameter list creation to bx_init_usb_options().
- textconfig.cc: Small fixes in the optional plugin control.
- Fixed USB devices list by adding a terminating NULL entry.
- Disable USB device options parameter if device is set to "none".
- Related documentation updates.
- Moved main option from the portX parameter to the optionsX parameter. Added
new option "path" for the disk, cdrom and floppy devices, "ports" for the
USB hub and "file" for the USB printer. The legacy syntax is still supported.
- Register USB device state after init() to ensure all options that may have
effect on the save/restore list are applied.
- Report available devices on top of log file similar to hdimage, network and
sound modules.
- Changed USB device type variable typein host controllers to int.
- Prepared improved usbdev_ctl init / exit implementation.
- TODO: Create list of USB devices dynamicly from available plugins.
hardcoded one. In plugins mode now all plugins with PLUGTYPE_GUI can be used.
Added similar code for the case plugins are disabled. The macros
PLUG_get_plugins_count() and PLUG_get_plugin_name() can be used in both cases.
- BXRS_PARAM_BOOL macro should be used for bool type members only.
- Fixed usage of wrong BXRS macro for numeric member in usb_hid.cc.
- New PCI parameter "advopts" must be saved in config.
- FIXME: Bochs hangs at startup in restore mode.
module code. Sound driver names are now stored as string constants instead
of hardcoded values. Available modules are detected at Bochs startup and stored
in a string array before initializing options. In the plugins case available
modules are read from the plugins list. If plugins are off, the registry of
bx_sound_lowlevel_c is used. Related changes similar to the hdimage and
network modifications.
handling. Networking module names are now stored as string constants instead of
hardcoded values. Available modules are detected at Bochs startup and stored in
a string array before initializing options. In the plugins case available
modules are read from the plugins list. If plugins are off, the eth_locator_c
registry is used. Related changes in all parts of Bochs that need the
networking stuff.
TODO #1: Sound drivers could be handled in a similar way.
- Changing VGA extension to "voodoo" did not work in the config interface.
Moved plugin loading to the string parameter handler and added plugin
unloading case.
- Unloading "voodoo" VGA plugin resets pluginVgaDevice to stubVga.
- pluginUnregisterDeviceDevmodel() now supports core plugins.
- Some other small plugin related changes.
loaded in bochsrc with "plugin_ctrl" or with their own name, the user plugin
option and the special cases for PLUGTYPE_USER are no longer needed. Updated
example patch to make it work with the latest SVN code.
- Now that we know about all available plugins at startup, the bx_list_c object
"plugin_ctrl" contains a fixed number of bx_param_bool_c objects representing
the requested status (1 = load). It is verified at simulation startup.
- The config interface creates two text lists (textconfig) or list boxes (win32,
wx) from it to show the remaining available and the loaded plugins. Loading
and unloading is performed immediately and plugins may install / uninstall
options in other menus / dialogs.
- Modified the "non-plugin" code to make the optional plugin control work very
similar in this mode.
string constants instead of hardcoded values. Available modes are detected at
Bochs startup and stored in a string array before initializing options. In the
plugins case additional modes are read from the plugins list. If plugins are
off, the hdimage_locator_c registry is used. Related changes in all parts of
Bochs that need the hdimage stuff.
TODO #1: Network and sound drivers could be handled in a similar way.
TODO #2: Make disk image mode detection work again in plugins mode.
It creates an array of strings from a string containing a comma separated list
of options. Now using this function for display library options, USB port
options and ROM image options.
The latest release is from 2001 and it will not work on modern Linux systems.
Parts of the SVGALib code have been moved to the Linux kernel and the X11 and
SDL libraries are using it as a video driver.
- Shortcut parser sets a flag in case of error.
- String parameter handler resets to old value if the new one is invalid.
- User button handler shows a message box if the parser signals an error.
- Fixed ne2k parameter save function.
- For backward compatibility, card #0 defaults to PCI if the ne2k is assigned
to at least one PCI slot.
- The "bootrom" parameter is only valid for the PCI card type.
old SF patches this solution is compatible with the plugin architecture. The
ne2k plugin is loaded only once and a new ne2k_main_c object creates up to 4
ne2k device objects depending on the config. The new ne2k parameter "card"
specifies the zero-based card number to configure. If not given, the default
is card #0 for compatibility. The new ne2k parameter "type" specifies the bus
it is connected to ("isa" or "pci"). Card #0 defaults to PCI, the others to
ISA. In the PCI slot configuration the ne2k device can be used multiple times
if more than one card is configured.
Related changes:
- removed SMF stuff for ne2k
- always convert device prefix to uppercase (ne2k uses NE2K0 ... NE2K3)
- removed unused BXPN values
- TODO: add multiple NICs support for the E1000
- Don't set up and load pre-defined optional plugins in restore mode.
- Remove the save/restore registration in Voodoo destructors.
- TODO: Fix frozen SDL/SDL2 display after restore.
- Get rid of VER_STRING since it's the same as VERSION
- Add new defines VER_MAJOR, VER_MINOR, VER_PATCH and VER_SVN and use them for
the version number on Windows.
- TODO: Add the capability to detect installed version to the Windows installer.
This code is based on the initial patch by Ben Lunt with some modifications:
using enum parameter, extra parser handler and cdrom handling not necessary,
TODO: hdimage and bximage code, harddrv and USB disk emulation, BIOS.
- Added new PCI chipset choice for the i440BX AGPset. Some basic work is done,
but AGP support is not present yet.
- Added new class for the "virtual" PCI-to-PCI bridge that should manage the
secondary bus (AGP). Since this device must appear with device number #1 at
the primary bus, it was required to change the PCI device numbers for the
i440BX case. Moved the PIIX4 module to device number #7. The presence of the
PCI base address regions now depends on the header type as expected.
- Since the Bochs BIOS cannot handle the modified PCI device layout, all tests
continued with an external BIOS designed for this chipset (GA-6BA_F1.bin).
This BIOS requires additional changes in some devices.
- ACPI: Return value 0 for some status registers and the GPI registers.
- CMOS: Since the PIIX4 supports a 256 byte CMOS RAM, prepared support for it
and enable it in case a 256 byte CMOS image is used.
- PCI: The device numbers for 4 slots starting at #8. The 5th slot could be
used for AGP when available.
take RAW_BYTES string out of bx_param_string_c into new param type bx_param_bytestring_c (better name, anybody?)
this is intermediate step, later it would be better to merge bx_param_string into generic template bx_param<type>
but bx_param_bytestring_cis not matching that concept (or probably will continue to inherit from bx_param<string>)
use new method do dump param tree during save/restore, GUI and text debugger and other places
significantly reduce code duplication over multiple modules
- Treat VGA extension name other than "none", "vbe" or "cirrus" as a VGA
compatible device plugin and try to load it.
- Added new plugin type PLUGTYPE_VGA for such a plugins (interally handled like
a core plugin).
- Added panic in devices init for the case no VGA compatible plugin is present.
- Added new method vga_redraw_area() that handles the non-VGA and null size
case. The specific method redraw_area() is called otherwise.
- Moved init_systemtimer() call from extension code to init_standard_vga().
- TODO: Implement VGA subsystem in the Voodoo code to test the new feature.
Voodoo Banshee 2D accelerator code needs to be written to make this really
useful.
latest BIOS images 32-bit and even 64-bit guest OS's are known to boot inside
of Bochs without hacking. This legacy hack could be removed after next release
if nobody complains.
- Using bochsrc option "load32bitOSImage" now causes a warning. It is not
maintained yet, not documented and we don't whether it is used or not.
I guess it was designed to boot a real 32-bit guest OS when the Bochs BIOS
wasn't able to do it.
- Added config option --enable-busmouse to all shortcut scripts. We have two
usable models present now (tested with Win95).
- Added warnings for currently not maintained features in the configure script,
the bochsrc sample and the user doc.
- Removed detection of deprecated bochsrc options "i440fxsupport" and
"vga_update_interval".
- Legacy bochsrc option "user_shortcut" is now deprecated.
- Removed deprecated configure option --enable-misaligned-sse from user doc.
- Updated some TODO items.
external program 'bxhub' (simulating a two port ethernet hub). It is based on
an old SF patch and it has been updated and extended:
- Windows support (tested with MinGW/MSYS and MSVC nmake).
- Command line arguments for 'bxhub' (base port number, MAC address, TFTP).
- Added support for DHCP, TFTP, ARP and ICMP echo (ping). It uses parts of the
code for the 'vnet' module with some additions from the former "slirp backend".
- TODO: code cleanup to reduce duplication, rewrite of the networking plugins
stuff similar to the work done with the sound drivers.
Prepared "biosdetect" option in the harddrv code.
TODO #1: Add support for a comma-separated list of BIOS options.
TODO #2: Implement support for at least "biosdetect=none" in the Bochs BIOS.
configuration, loading images). Cleaned up "romimage" option parsing and
prepared parameter "options" for the behaviour of the Bochs BIOS.
TODO: implement BIOS option "fastboot" to skip the boot menu prompt.
- waveout: added support for RIFF WAVE format and raw output. The formats
'voc' and 'wav' are detected by file extension, raw output is used otherwise.
- midiout: added support for raw midi output (no header, no deltatime).
The 'mid' format is detected by file extension, raw output is used otherwise.
- Added 'midiout' parameter to the global sound option to specify the device
if necessary. The related SB16 parameter now only specifies the output file.
- TODO: Rewrite of the sound configuration and output code to support dual
output (device and file).
implemented important CPU statistics which were used for Bochs CPU model performance analysis.
old statistics code from paging.cc and cpu.cc is replaced with new infrastructure.
In order to enale statitics collection in Bochs CPU:
- Enable statistics @ compilation time in cpu/cpustats.h
- Dump statistics periodically by adding -dumpstats N into Bochs command line
gui init and string paramter handler. The shortcut keys are now stored in an
array of BX_KEY* values in the gui object.
siminterface.h: Fixed some default return values.
- added new symbol BX_WITH_SDL2 and prepared build system
- TODO #1: add new option --with-sdl2 to configure script
- TODO #2: add new file sdl2.cc (porting seems hard to do - writing from scratch
might be better)
- added slirp.conf to NSIS script
- NSIS script now using HTML documentation path from 'install_win32' target
- Makefile: DLX Linux config file renamed to 'bochsrc.bxrc' for win32
- config.cc: bochsrc option removed with coming version
required an external binary and it couldn't be ported to Windows. Now the new
builtin and portable slirp support based on Qemu's implementation is almost
stable and all the 'vnet' DHCP and TFTP features have been ported to the new
slirp module.
TODO: rename all the "slirp_new" stuff to "slirp"
is almost a port of the Qemu 1.1.2 implementation. It has been tested successfully
on Linux and Windows (MinGW/MSYS). The networking module is currently called
"slirp_new", since the "slirp" backend module still exists.
TODO list:
- MSVC support (requires container_of() macro replacement)
- apply fixes and improvements from recent Qemu releases
- use our TFTP implementation to reduce code duplication
- check if we can share ARP and DHCP support with "vnet"
- add SMB support on Linux
- finally remove the slirp backend module support
usb device plugins. Loading the plugin means that the user wants to enable it.
Disabling the device on the command line and in the config interface is still
possible.
- fixed pluginlog init in non-plugin mode
- reduced logprefix length limit and use it for the related string parameter
- increase the device prefix size to 6
- TODO: change some more device prefixes
- If the runtime flag of a bx_list_c object is set, all it's items are set up
as runtime options.
- Set the runtime parameter for all top-level runtime-only lists. Setting up
each single parameter is no longer needed.
- moved some options to the top and some legacy ones to the end of the function
- added some info to the legacy keyboard options
- removed 'text_snapshot_check' keyword
- some coding style changes
- added 'wavein' parameter to specify the wave input device if necessary
- if 'wavein' is not set, Bochs uses the 'waveout' value for input, too
- SB16: the 'wave' parameter is now only used to specify the filename (mode 2 or 3)
- TODO: implement 'wavemode' feature for ES1370 similar to SB16
- added 'sound' option to select the driver and the wave output device
(see bochsrc sample for details)
- the wave device option of sb16 and es1370 is now only used to set up the
wave input device (if necessary)
- cleaned up the speaker code to initialize the 'sound' case correctly
higher resolutions and > 8 bpp graphics modes. The RFB gui with limited
capabilities is still available.
TODO:
- fix random segfaults in dimension_update()
- Windows (MinGW) support
- fixes for clients not supporting 'rfbEncodingNewFBSize'
- fix cursor shape after dimension update()
- after parsing command line only update actions if default has changed
- bx_init_hardware(): extra update of log actions in quick start mode not needed
