David, when I get up to date the direct floppy / printer / hard drive code
for Bochs, i'll send them to you instead of us releasing two seperate
versions. I'm currently working on the direct cdrom access. BTW to Sid... I
read something on the vmware message boards that NT doesn't allow access to
the whole cdrom, anyone want to investigate this / write a driver to bypass
NT's native driver. I think this was the problem with BeOS.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: David Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:52 AM
Subject: RE: some x86 instructions
>
> Net drivers for the Win32 port of Bochs would be awesome. =)
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Sid Karnik wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Speaking of other operating systems..... I have the tools for
compiling NT
> > > drivers if we have someone to code them ;-)
> > > Nick
> >
> > since i write drivers for a living.. this shouldn't be a problem. just
let
> > me know what you folks need :)
> >
> > sid
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Kevin P. Lawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 9:45 AM
> > > Subject: Re: some x86 instructions
> > >
> > >
> > > > Jens Nerche wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I'm new on this list, greetings to all listeners!
> > > > >
> > > > > I think in http://www.freemware.org/docs.phtml?file=paper.txt
> > > > > is a lack of some instructions, we should have a look on
> > > > > invd, invlpg, rdmsr, wrmsr, wbinvd, sysenter and sysexit. Most
> > > > > of them (first 5) are protected, and I don't know if last two
> > > important
> > > > > for us.
> > > >
> > > > I'm glad you pointed the last 2 out, I haven't looked into
> > > > them yet.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > First 5 are CPL==0 as you said, so they're no problem.
> > > >
> > > > SYSENTER has the following checks:
> > > >
> > > > IF CR0.PE == 0 THEN #GP(0)
> > > > IF SYSENTER_CS_MSR == 0 THEN #GP(0)
> > > >
> > > > So I would say we should do the following. Upon startup of
> > > > FreeMWare, check what processor we're running on and see
> > > > if sysenter/sysexit are supported via CPUID.
> > > >
> > > > If not supported, then no big deal. If supported then when
> > > > ever we warp into our VM, save the value of SYSENTER_CS_MSR
> > > > and then set it to 0. Then we'll receive a fault when
> > > > the guest tries to use it. We have to restore the value
> > > > when warping back to the host OS.
> > > >
> > > > SYSEXIT is CPL==0 only, so also no problem.
> > > >
> > > > -Kevin
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> David Ross
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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