On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Kevin P. Lawton wrote:
> I'm back working on FreeMWare again.
welcome back!
> What I'm up to now, is compiling/condensing a number of
> ideas from past emails on virtualization strategies, into
> one coherent document. I'll focus on the basic stuff,
> and move the advanced stuff to the end.
sounds excellent, I look forward to reading it. On a related topic, I was
wondering if anyone could give me links to papers related to
virtualization or emulation. I won't have any time to do much with them
until the semester ends, but Christmas break this year is four weeks long,
which means plenty of time for reading! I already plan on reading the
paper(s?) on SimOS, but beyond that I don't know where to start looking...
I'm hoping to get a good overview of the topic before next semester so I
can then jump right in.
> Thought this would be good for newcomers and for
> a quick review by anyone.
>
> Am partially finished with the rehash. Am planning
> on completeing that, and getting back to coding after
> this Thanksgiving weekend.
>
> I'll probably start out with the instruction
> pre-scanner logic. Should be a piece of cake after
> writing a number of decode/disasm loops for bochs etc.
> With an eye for the future, I'm going to start out
> from day one by passing an instruction map to the
> pre-scanner, of instructions to virtualize, rather
> than have them built in. This will be very useful
> for plugging debugging/instrumentation logic into
> FreeMWare to be used as a very powerful software ICE kind
> of tool.
>
> It's good to be back...
excellent...
-- Pete Rijks
http://www.nd.edu/~prijks/ \|/
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering -*-
University of Notre Dame (Class of 2000) /|\
