- fopen with "wb" so that win32 doesn't translate CRLF
- add initmode setting
- fix bug, fill in behavior in write handler
- now it works for him with DOS, Linux, and Windows guests
probably been treated as ifdef instead, but a sun compiler doesn't like
them. Anyway, they were being used around a check for irq_num > 15.
This bounds check seems ok to do all the time, so I just removed the
#if BX_DEBUG lines and corresponding #endifs.
interface menus. Parallel port #1 is implemented, and I left stubs for
parallel port #2 in case we want to ever add it. If the parallel port
is enabled, the init method of parallel.cc does an fopen() on the output
file. If disabled, or if the fopen fails, the file handler remains
NULL and no characters are printed. There is no attempt to enable/disable
the operation of the parallel port, only the output to a file.
[ #468340 ] pic:slave: OCW3 not implemented
The service_master_pic() method supported special mask mode but
service_slave_pic() did not. I added the code to service_slave_pic(). I
have no clear way to test that this is actually working right. If I can put
a gdb breakpoint in the pic.cc code and then step through and watch it work,
I'll be more confident.
I compiled Bochs on Linux and installed a linux
in it, but when I ping a machine on my LAN, I get
packet loss. Sometimes as much as 70% is lost.
So I read ne2k.cc, Linux 8390 driver and 8390 chip
specification. I find that 8390 command register START
bit is misused in ne2k.cc. According to the chip
specification, even if START=0, the chip does not stop
working.
device and disk file for a while. Even though its version of
read_toc is minimal, in fact I would say broken, it lets people use
an ISO disk file as a cdrom.
- in this revision, I wrote the "unix equivalent" of the win32 code, including
the broken version of read_toc. Now win32 and unix should act very similar
when they encounter an ISO disk image.
- one important improvement is in read_toc, I have added "*length=1" for both
win32 and unix, since otherwise the function returns random junk for the
length of the TOC. I also tried "*length=0" and that created the "lost
interrupt" behavior that psyon has been trying to get rid of...I changed it
back to *length=1 of course and left a note to him in that bug report.
which were generated with gcc -MM to the end of each Makefile.in
so that make understands which files depend on which. Basically,
everything depends on bochs.h, which depends on everything, which
is not ideal.
of just panicing. In particular, if the logical sector is out of bounds
or the disk image cannot be read/written at the desired offset, we now
abort the ATA command and return an error code. Many of the old BX_PANIC
messages are turned to BX_ERROR, so they will still appear in the
log, but now the device model will try to communicate this fact to
the OS instead of simply giving up.
I still need to do add some commands from older specs that are obsolete
(and not listed) in ATAPI-6.
- commands that aren't in the spec will still panic.
- fill in names from spec on various commands
- add command aborted for 0x08 device reset on disks (it's only for ATAPI)
- add command aborted for 0xe1 idle immediate
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.
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.
Fixed a "feature" in pc_system.cc with setting timers to small values
that can cause bochs to hang.
Significantly improved the performance of the new PIT.
It's probably ready to become the default now.
Added a preliminary implementation of the slowdown timer
that Bryce and I had talked about.
