From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de (dvmwest.gt.owl.de [62.52.24.140]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12130489B for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:59:41 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:59:40 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Non-HP PCI cards & x86 BOOT-ROMS Message-ID: <20040116115940.GN14285@lug-owl.de> References: <20040116115517.GM14285@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NdlhywBBVma7OLA/" In-Reply-To: <20040116115517.GM14285@lug-owl.de> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --NdlhywBBVma7OLA/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-01-16 12:55:17 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote in message <20040116115517.GM14285@lug-owl.de>: > On Fri, 2004-01-16 12:04:22 +0100, Ivar Orskaug > wrote in message : > 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 --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --NdlhywBBVma7OLA/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAB9IsHb1edYOZ4bsRAjgPAKCET6nJWjE8u1Qn4lwxrPTPxM7cIgCeJ0LE 5Kjuk6465FaE+r7afitvJ1k= =pLVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NdlhywBBVma7OLA/--