- added new class bx_vgacore_c containing the core of the standard VGA
emulation. This is now the base class for both vga and cirrus.
- created 2 separate plugins 'vga' (for standard VGA and VBE) and 'svga_cirrus'
(Cirrus emulation). The vga extension option is used to select which plugin
should be loaded.
- TODO: move the pcivga code to the VGA/VBE code, add subdirectory for display
adapters, severak improvements and cleanups
- changed argument for the text mode info structure to a pointer
- added attribute controller palette to bx_vga_tminfo_t and removed the
previous implementation
- carbon.cc: attempt to fix the text mode colors (untested)
- x.cc: fixed warnings
in the gui object. Now the gui doesn't need to include vga.h.
- TODO #1: win32.cc also shouldn't include vga.h
- TODO #2: replace BX_MAX_XRES / BX_MAX_YRES by variables that can be set
depending on the configuration
directly while parsing the bochsrc or command line. If plugin support is enabled,
the option could load all optional plugins, not only the ones supported before.
NOTE #1: The old option had all plugins enabled by default and gave the user
a chance to diable them. Now the plugins are only loaded if they
appear in the config line and they are set to "1".
NOTE #2: Loading a plugin that is controlled by a bochsrc option is possible,
but it currently leads to a panic, since the load command is still
present in devices.cc.
NOTE #3: The plugin init code creates the device object and registers the
optional plugin device. As an option, it can create config parameters
and register an option parser. The device init, register state and
reset is still handled in devices.cc, but in the order the devices
have been loaded with the plugin control.
NOTE #4: If plugin support is disabled, the plugin control only accepts the
devices listed in plugin.cc.
- plugin init of core plugins now fails if they are not loaded with the expected
type. For core plugins the load order is important and they cannot be handled
with the chained devices list (used for optional and user plugins).
- some additions for calling config.cc functions from a plugin device
- added new method get_vga_pixel() that read the color value from EGA/VGA memory layout (moved from
display update code and now also used for snapshots)
- minor code cleanups
'vga_update_interval' option. The screen update frequency is still based on
the emulated clock unless the realtime sync is enabled with the 'clock' option.
TODO: rewrite the virt_timer code to support realtime screen updates
independent from 'clock' setting.
- fixed changing parameter 'update_freq' at runtime (timer object and blink counter)
- using the same init() method for all display adapters
- new method protected init_standard_vga() for the shared vga core
- new method init_vga_extension() implements the extended features
- moved loading of vgabios image for the ISA case from main.cc to the vga init code
makes screen updates independant from the ips value if the realtime
synchronization is enabled ("clock: sync=[realtime|both]").
Thanks to Stanislav for pointing me to this direction.
--enable-vbe is now deprecated and the symbols BX_SUPPORT_VBE and
BX_SUPPORT_PCIVGA have been removed. To enable VBE support, the bochsrc option
"vga: extension=" must be set to "vbe". If PCI is present, you can assign the
"pcivga" device to a PCI slot.
* use default value for screen width if update() is called before VGABIOS init
* set minimum value for vga_update_interval to 40000 (default value: 50000)
* no longer accept ips values smaller than BX_MIN_IPS and default value
changed to 4000000
* 'usb_uhci' bochsrc option replaces 'usb1'
* minor changes in the USB code
* removed old VBE i/o port registration (they were incompatible with USB)
* updated FSF address
- fixed saving user plugin options
