>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.
Yeah, cool !
>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.
Can't we combine these ? Have an ALLOCRSRC IOCTL call and give each resource
its own number.
-- Ramon
