The patch was posted in mailing list at Thu 6/16/2011.
Desription for CHANGES:
- Memory
- Added new configure option which enables RAM file backing for large guest
memory with a smaller amount host memory, without causing a panic when
host memory is exhausted (patch by Gary Cameron). To enable configure with
--enable-large-ramfile option.
duplicate log prefixes on Windows if both IDE and USB cdroms are used in plugin mode. Windows also
requires the cdrom base class and the init_cdrom() method to link and work correctly.
the plex86 interface was not updated since 2001 and even doesn't compile together with current Bochs sources.
plex86 source code still can be found in plex86 sourceforge project @ http://plex86.sourceforge.net/
- don't add reserved bitfields to the save/restore tree
- some fixes for big endian machines
- TODO: init max_packet_size in USB devices, find test case, ...
removed bx_instr_new_instruction callback, the callback ALWAYS can be replaced with another one - bx_instr_before_execution
TODO: fix instrumentation examples (example0 and example1)
- added main source file usb_xhci.cc
- TODO: finsh work in register_state()
- TODO: USB devices: initialize max_packet_size
- TODO: test case for xHCI wanted
- 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
- scan for VGABIOS ROM after rombios32 init
- copy PCI ROM to shadow RAM at 0xc0000 and enable it
- NOTE: this feature does not work with BIOS-bochs-legacy, so we should recommend to use the
default BIOS for PCI display adapters
- TODO: load VGABIOS ROM from the vga code instead of main.cc if PCI is disabled
- scan for VGABIOS ROM after rombios32 init
- copy PCI ROM to shadow RAM at 0xc0000 and enable it
- NOTE: this feature does not work with BIOS-bochs-legacy, so we should recommend to use the
default BIOS for PCI display adapters
- TODO: load VGABIOS ROM from the vga code instead of main.cc if PCI is disabled
