[parisc-linux] Non-HP PCI cards & x86 BOOT-ROMS

Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de
Fri Jan 16 04:59:40 MST 2004


On Fri, 2004-01-16 12:55:17 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de>
wrote in message <20040116115517.GM14285 at lug-owl.de>:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 12:04:22 +0100, Ivar Orskaug <Ivar.Olav.Harstad.Orskaug at idi.ntnu.no>
> wrote in message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401161155280.15789 at vier.idi.ntnu.no>:

> Maybe it would be a nice idea to hack bochs to initialize those cards,
> but that's a lot of work, though...

Thinking again about that, it maybe isn't all *that* hard. Bochs already
does know about the concept of shared DRAM and ROM BIOSes etc. Maybe
it's really just enough to hack it's memory class (yup, it's written in
C++) to not back the memory by RAM or on-disk storage, but to redirect
all accesses to physical RAM.

The same is to be done with I/O ports too, of course... For complex card
(SCSI RAID host adaptors), you may need to service interrupts, too:-(

MfG, JBG

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