From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV21M-00046Z-Rg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:36:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV21I-000460-4Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:36:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56708 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MV21H-00045x-Ou for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:35:59 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:10559) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MV21H-0001vj-DT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:35:59 -0400 Received: from bavaria.utcluj.ro ([193.226.5.35]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MV20x-0003s5-31 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:35:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bavaria.utcluj.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDAFB241A for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bavaria.utcluj.ro ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bavaria.utcluj.ro [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qZ0uQbyPPTxR for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.169.1.100] (unknown [92.82.51.100]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mcristi) by bavaria.utcluj.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67117B241B for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:10 +0300 (EEST) From: Cristi Magherusan Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LhWMFT8MQFzv9Vv/bK+m" Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:08 +0300 Message-Id: <1248608109.15752.40.camel@ufo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Qemu-devel] Intel 440bx hardware emulation correctness List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --=-LhWMFT8MQFzv9Vv/bK+m Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, Does qemu aim to completely emulate the Intel 440bx northbridge hardware (and maybe other) to detail, or instead does it on purpose skip some parts for the sake of simplicity? As an example, I've seen that the RAM parameters are written in CMOS instead of doing it using SPD and some RAM control registers, as documented in the 440 datasheet.=20 This only affects the BIOS code that does RAM detection, so the Bochs BIOS code would also need to be changed accordingly. Thanks, Cristi --=20 Ing. Cristi M=C4=83gheru=C8=99an, System/Network Engineer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247 --=-LhWMFT8MQFzv9Vv/bK+m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpsP2MACgkQfwrBISYVZFWdCACeMH43G2w15QJx8HvansFIaE27 Fs0An141DOXczx1aSsNnof8wlkMuE1L3 =5Xqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LhWMFT8MQFzv9Vv/bK+m--