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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:11:15 +0200
From: "Hetz Ben Hamo" <hetzbh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] newer system features ACPI, MSI?
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Hi Brad,

most of the features of the QEMU BIOS came from the BOCHS projects
with some stuff came from Fabrice and others.

You might want to look here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bochs/bochs/bios/

I'm not sure that either BOCHS or QEMU ACPI implementation would
satisfy Vista, although I haven't tried installing Vista with Bochs's
latest BIOS.

As for MSI, I don't know if it's implemented in the BIOS, perhaps
Fabrice or Paul can help you with those questions.

Thanks,
Hetz

On 3/6/06, Brad Smith <brads-qemu@bssu.org> wrote:
> I'm looking at QEMU to help develop some device drivers and a couple
> of new features would be really useful.  First is bios support for
> ACPI so we can run Windows Vista/Longhorn in QEMU.  Second is
> PCI Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) supported in modern Intel
> CPUs.  Is there an effort to add these two features to QEMU?
> Any patches available?