support LBA. This builds okay, but I want to find a way to actually see that
it's making some difference before committing it. Anyway have an OS or
diagnostic program that tests if LBA is in use? What would LBA allow me to
do that I can't do without it, so that a test can be done?
sourceforge patch #423726. He writes:
> you'll find as attachment a little patch which make
> bochs support the double fault. currently, when 2 pages
> fault occur, bochs does not generate a double fault (as
> the Intel documentation says) but do
> generate a other page fault, which make a triple fault,
> and bochs will exit.
>
> this very little patch make bochs support this double
> fault, which is
> used in our OS in order to dynamically increse kernel
> level stacks.
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
