- ne2k and sb16 config lines now support the parameter "enabled=0|1"
- config parser code for ne2k and pnic now working the same way
- ne2k enable option now present in config menu / dialog
- textconfig now supports lists in a list
- network configuration divided in two menus / groupboxes
- ips setting now belongs to the clock menu / dialog
- wx.cc: center status bar items (wxMSW port only)
- wxmain.cc: obsolete stuff removed
code. Up to 3 boot drives are supported now. TODO: new boot dialog for wx.
- config.cc: missing ask formats for enum parameters added
- wxdialog.cc: tab window now uses the label instead of the ask format if defined
data written to the port and where to get the data read from it. Available
modes are 'null' (no input/output), 'file' (output to a file specified as
the 'dev' parameter), 'term' (serial terminal) and 'raw' (use the real serial
port - under construction for win32).
- descriptions for serial and parallel options in bochsrc sample updated
* up to 5 slots can be specified with the 'i440fxsupport' config option
* the pci slot number are hardwired to pci device numbers
* the 'devfunc' value is returned the calling device (useful for multi-function
devices)
* the core of the i440FX chipset is hardwired to pci device 1 + 2; usb is still
optional and appears at device 1, function 2
- ne2k: enable pci features if connected to a pci slot
- ne2k: asic data port supports 32-bit access if ne2k-pci is active
- pci2isa: improved error messages for ELCR1 and ELCR2
- textconfig runtime menu: some options moved to submenu "Misc runtime options"
- bx_param_c: variable group_name and methods set_group() / get_group() added
- bx_list_c: new flag SHOW_GROUP_NAME added (used for SB16 options in runtime menu)
be used instead of a simple text control (implemented in wx)
- the new flag USE_SPIN_CONTROL is used by the memory size and the irq parameters
- special bx_list_c for the "Other options" menu in the wx configuration added
available at runtime
- wx: 'runtime' flag added to ParamDialog. If this flag is set, all options
with the flag 'runtime_param' clear will be disabled.
- only the runtime options for cdrom's are now enabled in the ATA dialogs at runtime
- the options 'keyboard paste delay', 'mouse' and 'vga update interval' are now
available at runtime
- wxdialog.h: unnecessary comments removed
- new bx_list_c for keyboard options (used in wx, TODO in textconfig)
- new flag USE_BOX_TITLE controls the usage of the list name for the group box label
- wxdialog.cc: unused variable removed
- pit: and time0: options are still supported but deprecated
- warn when parsing deprecated directives
- fix wrong number of ata_device_translation_names
- still to do:
- setting time0 to utc is not yet supported
- the man page, user guide and .bochsrc still need to be updated
with the new options
- add handlers called when a parameter is enabled or disabled.
This is useful for parameter dependent on another, that may
not wish to be enabled when its father parameter is enabled.
You can now choose for each disk on the ata interfaces the
disk mode, between :
- flat : one file flat layout
- concat : multiple files layout
- external : developer's specific, through a C++ class
- dll : developer's specific, through a DLL
- sparse : stackable, commitable, rollbackable
- vmware3 : vmware3 disk support
- undoable : flat file with commitable redolog
- growable : growing file
- volatile : flat file with volatile redolog
- z-undoable : gziped flat file with commitable redolog
- z-volatile : gziped flat file with volatile redolog
A new "bxcommit" utility can merge commitable redologs to
flat images.
and improved by Christophe Bothamy and Volker Ruppert)
Comment from the author:
Attached is a "patch" file detailing what you need to do
to add USB support (UHCI only for now) to your existing
Bochs (2.0.xx) source code.
I use Win32 and VC++ but the source and modifications
should be platform and compiler independant.
Please let me know if this patch some how breaks the
build process of your compilation (Bochs 2.0.0 or above
only).
I would also like any feedback on how this code works
(or doesn't work) on your platform and within your
images. If you explain in as much detail as you can on
how it did or did not work, I will try to add to the source
to help it work on all platforms and images.
Authors: Br'fin, Bryce
- for MacOSX/Carbon, if you start the app by double clicking in the finder,
there is no text console. So in logfunctions::fatal(), display the
final message in a Carbon dialog instead of using fprintf.
- in the text-mode config interface, return an error code if the
user tries to use the text menus when there's no text console.
Back in bxmain() this error code causes a panic
"Bochs needed the text console, but it was not usable"
- if a config file was not found, normally we turn off quick start
and drop into the text menus. However in the no-console case the
text menus won't work, so we added a panic: Unable to start Bochs
without a bochsrc.txt and without a text console. This is a much
more useful error than the generic one above.
- removed ensure_text_console() which was making matters worse instead
of better.
Modified Files:
logio.cc main.cc gui/siminterface.cc gui/siminterface.h gui/textconfig.cc
completely ignored and Bochs has always been returning 0. Now Bochs should
exit with the proper exit code.
- implementation: BX_EXIT(exitcode) calls SIM->quit_sim(exitcode).
quit_sim stores the exit code in the SIM object, then uses longjmp
to unwind the stack and return to main(). main() calls
SIM->get_exit_code() to retrieve the exit code and returns it.
- If you are wondering why we don't just call exit(exitcode), it is
because in the wxWindows interface all of the CPU simulation runs as one
thread while the user interface runs as another thread. With the longjmp
technique the simulation thread ends cleanly and it is possible to
start a new simulation thread without making a new process.
eject, insert, eject, etc. several extra times before allowing you to
actually change the CD. The extra insert/eject cycles were coming from the
param handlers for cdrom status and for the cdrom pathname. To fix this, I
changed wxdialog.cc and textconfig.cc to only call set() on parameters if
they are different from the original value. Now it generally does what you
would expect.
- to change physical CD: change the Bochs CD status to "ejected". On some OSes
that will actually eject it, but on others it will simply close the file so
that the eject button will actually work. Then put the new CD into the
drive, and change the Bochs CD status to "inserted".
Modified Files:
main.cc gui/siminterface.cc gui/siminterface.h
gui/textconfig.cc gui/wxdialog.cc
the first hard drive or first cdrom drive no matter where they are found.
Now the wxWindows interface recognizes this fact. It allows you to
select HD boot if there is a hard drive in any ATA location, and
select CDROM boot if there is a cdrom in any ATA location.
- this fixes bug [ 616139 ] wx: boot hd/cd must be in ata0 interface
Modified Files:
gui/siminterface.cc gui/siminterface.h gui/wxmain.cc
This fixes bug #614724: SDL can get stuck in full-screen mode, and provides
a framework for fixing the problem on other full-screen display libraries
such as term, svga, etc.
- add virtual method bx_gui::set_display_mode(mode) which can be overridden
by each display library class, if appropriate. This method is primarily
used when you run Bochs full screen, to tell the gui to switch from full
screen back to a mode where you can use the text console.
- There are two display modes: config and simulation. The mode is changed to
config mode during logfunctions::ask, during the runtime configuration menu,
and before displaying a debugger prompt. It is changed back to simulation
mode whenever instructions are running.
- Instead of being called directly through the global bx_gui pointer, the
bx_gui_c::set_display_mode() method is almost always accessed through
siminterface, like this:
SIM->set_display_mode (DISP_MODE_CONFIG);
SIM->set_display_mode (DISP_MODE_SIM);
Of course siminterface just passes the call on to bx_gui::set_display_mode().
I added it to siminterface so that the config interfaces could call it.
(They don't #include bochs.h so they can't access bx_gui.)
Modified Files:
logio.cc main.cc debug/dbg_main.cc gui/gui.h gui/sdl.cc
gui/siminterface.cc gui/siminterface.h
there is one more option in the configuration file "debugger_log"
if the debugger is compiled in, all debugger output will be also
written to this file. Note: wxWindow config interface is not updated yet
- The Bochs debugger uses BX_WITH_WX to decide to change to wxWindows debugger
behavior: sending a synchronous message to the config interface to get a new
command, sending all dbg_printf output to the config interface, deciding
whether to trap control-C, etc. But now that it's possible to compile with
BX_WITH_WX and BX_WITH_other_things, this isn't quite right anymore. With
this change, we now use calls to a new method SIM->is_wx_selected() to decide
which behavior to use. This method is equivalent to checking if the display
library variable is set to "wx", but it's implemented in such a way that it
only has to check a boolean for each call to SIM->is_wx_selected().
- in siminterface.cc, init some local variables to 0 to avoid compile
warnings.
Modified Files:
debug/dbg_main.cc gui/siminterface.cc gui/siminterface.h
New behaviour is:
. No command line arg (user want to load or create a new conf file)
-> no .bochsrc is loaded
-> defaults to "2. Read options from..."
. command line arg -q (user want to quick start from .bochsrc)
-> .bochsrc is loaded
-> if found Run the simulation
-> if not found defaults to "2. Read options from..."
. command line arg -f (user want to edit a conf file)
-> conf file is loaded
-> if found defaults to "3. Edit options"
-> if not found defaults to "2. Read options from..."
. command line arg -qf (user want to quick start from a conf file)
-> conf file is loaded
-> if found Run the simulation
-> if not found defaults to "2. Read options from..."
. After selection of "2. Read options from..."
-> defaults to "5. Begin simulation"
- fix "enable-control-panel" behaviour in configure.in.
- check if a romimage was supplied in the conf file.
If not, print a hint about a missing/corrupt conf file.
I hope I did not break anything, notably the Carbon gui
