We are currently working on designing a replacement for the Bochs elements in
plex86, although they will continue to be present in some other form in the
future. As for the other questions, I am not the authoritative source on
them.
Bryce Denney wrote:
> Since plex86 and bochs share significant chunks of code, how can we best
> benefit from each others' efforts? Should someone from each project just
> keep an eye on the other's CVS tree and watch for changes of interest?
> Do you want to sync up only when there's a release, or should we tell each
> other whenever a major improvement or feature is added?
>
> >From a quick look through the source, I see the following parts in common:
> rombios, gui, iodev, and pc_system.
>
> One motivation for asking this now is that we're working on cleaning up
> the output of the printfs and panics, which will introduce tons of minor
> changes in formatting of output messages, etc. I want to understand
> plex86's needs WRT the shared code, before the sources diverge too far.
> For example, are the Bochs I/O models always going to be needed, or are
> they only used for now until the Real Thing is developed in its place?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce
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Drew Northup, N1XIM
