I'll hook up VGA emulation from bochs to FreeMWare after
I get back from this Y2K weekend. Should be fun to
see the VM running in a window.
On this topic, I think we'll need a way to notify the
monitor about how our hardware is attached to the IO
and memory spaces etc. Am thinking of adding a set
of ioctl() calls.
- allocate an IO port (range). request either redirect
back to host user process, or pass-through (for the future).
- mark a physical memory page as being memory mapped IO.
- mark a physical memory page as being read-only (for BIOS ROM).
- perhaps request an IRQ be passed-through (for the future).
With a few primitives like this, I can easily share the
device emulation from bochs.
Have a great Y2K!
-Kevin
