From his patch file text:
> This patch adds Promise DC2300 VLB IDE Support.
> You may find msdos and win95 drivers on the net. Look for
> P2300W95.ZIP and DC2300VLBIDEver260b.ZIP.
>
> The good news is that now win95 natively sees my cdrom,
> and that the disks are not in msdos compatibility mode any more.
>
> The bad news is that it works only for the first ata interface.
>
> I tested that patch on msdos and win95 only.
>
> Some info on VLB IDE can be found at http://ryston.cz/petr/vlb/
I got Win95 running with 32-bit paging/filesystem using the
recommended driver and these patches. Since the patches did
such a good job bracketing code modifications with a #define,
they might as well become part of the current CVS code.
- Features :
. number of active channels defined at boot-time config
. new options in bochsrc
. up to 8 devices support (disks or cdroms)
. up to 4 cdrom devices can be changed at runtime config
. wxwindows config interface
to request bulk IO operations to IO devices which are bulk IO aware.
Currently, I modified only harddrv.cc to be aware. I added some
fields to the bx_devices_c class for the IO instructions to
place requests and receive responses from the IO device emulation.
Devices except the hard drive, don't monitor these fields so they
respond as normal. The hard drive now monitors these fields for
bulk requests, and if enabled, it memcpy()'s data straight from
the disk buffer to memory. This eliminates numerous inp/outp calling
sequences per disk sector.
I used the fields in bx_devices_c so that I would not have to
disrupt most IO device modules. Enhancements can be made to
other devices if they use high-bandwidth IO via in/out instructions.
Some devices already had one. Some I had to add an empty one.
I did a little cleaning of init() methods to make them more uniform
but generally I left them alone.
- I also put these exact diffs into a patch "patch.iodev-add-reset"
in case I want to revert these changes for some reason, for example
if they break an old patch. It should be deleted after a while.
more work in the floppy and bios code.
- floppy and cdrom entries in the runtime config menu can be disabled if the
drive wasn't defined in bochsrc or start menu
- floppy variable "initial_status" and cdrom variable "inserted" renamed to
"status"
- unused variable *ips in function build_runtime_options_prompt() disabled
controller returns an error code until we are able to implement this feature.
- init_send_atapi_command(): don't panic if alloc_length is 0, use byte_count
to set alloc_length instead
- fixed a BX_PANIC message in the io write handler for port 0x1f0
floppy_bootsig_check: disabled=[0|1]. It is not disabled by default.
Sorry for any inconvenience it could cause
- changed the default (if cmos reg is 0) behavior for the floppy boot signature
check, so the new bios is compatible with older bochs binaries (useful if we
want to use the new bios when we release 1.4.1) :
1 : disabled
0 : enabled
- added info at launch time about the boot device and the floppy boot signature
check
- added a "LBA capable" flag in the ata controller
- new functions raise_irq() and lower_irq()
- all trigger_irq() / untrigger_irq() calls are replaced by the new functions
- REMARK: timer IRQ handling is not correct but it works
- TODO: IOAPIC IRQ handling needs to be changed
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."
> The Linux 2.4.5 CD-ROM driver sends a READ_DISC_INFO command which caused
> an "unrecognized ATAPI command" panic. Looks like READ_DISC_INFO is only
> recognized by CD-R and CD-RW drives, so I ignore it for now. (I don't
> know if ASC_INV_FIELD_IN_CMD_PACKET is the right code, but it shouldn't
> matter to Linux anyway.)
been converted into parameters temporarily have the letter "O" appended
to their name. I don't want to keep it this way, but it has helped
in the conversion process because the compiler refuses to compile the
old uses of the name. Before I started using the "O" trick, there were
many bugs like this: if (bx_options.diskc.present) {...}
This was legal with the new parameters, but it was testing whether the
parameter structure had been created, instead of testing the value of
the present parameter. Renaming present to Opresent turns this into
a compile error, which points out the incorrect use of the param.
- the "--disable-control-panel" no longer works, I'm afraid. I can no
longer support this and continue progress.
To see the commit logs for this use either cvsweb or
cvs update -r BRANCH-io-cleanup and then 'cvs log' the various files.
In general this provides a generic interface for logging.
logfunctions:: is a class that is inherited by some classes, and also
. allocated as a standalone global called 'genlog'. All logging uses
. one of the ::info(), ::error(), ::ldebug(), ::panic() methods of this
. class through 'BX_INFO(), BX_ERROR(), BX_DEBUG(), BX_PANIC()' macros
. respectively.
.
. An example usage:
. BX_INFO(("Hello, World!\n"));
iofunctions:: is a class that is allocated once by default, and assigned
as the iofunction of each logfunctions instance. It is this class that
maintains the file descriptor and other output related code, at this
point using vfprintf(). At some future point, someone may choose to
write a gui 'console' for bochs to which messages would be redirected
simply by assigning a different iofunction class to the various logfunctions
objects.
More cleanup is coming, but this works for now. If you want to see alot
of debugging output, in main.cc, change onoff[LOGLEV_DEBUG]=0 to =1.
Comments, bugs, flames, to me: todd@fries.net
- made the code that fills 0x1b-0x23 for diskc conditional on diskc being
present; this was probably not necessary.
- added some code (still commented out) that will help in supporting a second
IDE interface.
