Re: [ANN] Bochs bios ported to gcc

Kevin O'Connor
2008-04-06T15:03:33Z

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:05:11PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> I have been working on a port of bochs bios to gcc.
>
> While moving away from the horror that is bcc is a blessing, the way to
> really benefit from it is to have this code replace the original bochs
> bios. This way updates to the bochs bios are not lost for anyone using the
> new code.

I agree. I've been interacting with the bochs developers since I
started (about a month and half ago).

> Have you proposed replacing the bios to the bochs developers? What was the
> reaction?

The reaction was pretty "quiet". The bochs project is not nearly as
active as kvm, and the bios is just one small part of that project.

Now that the new code can actually launch a wide variety of payloads,
I'm hoping there will be more interest.

BTW, if anyone is interested in testing, please grab the 0.2.1 version
- the v0.2.0 version had a nasty bug on disk writes to large disks
(assuming one uses an OS that writes to disk via the bios).