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From: "Natalia Portillo" <claunia@claunia.com>
Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:57:21 +0100
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About the BIOS question we should have a modular BIOS.

Like AWARD, AMI, Phoenix, etc, BIOS, that have support for a great variety
of chipsets and CPUs, and are compiled with required modules for each
motherboard. 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: qemu-devel-bounces+iosglpgc=teleline.es@nongnu.org 
> [mailto:qemu-devel-bounces+iosglpgc=teleline.es@nongnu.org] 
> En nombre de Antony T Curtis
> Enviado el: viernes, 09 de julio de 2004 18:33
> Para: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Asunto: Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features
> 
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 16:37, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Natalia Portillo wrote:
> > > * 1 Chipset (Intel Natoma)
> > > 
> > > We should have more?
> > > If anyone can put more, great!
> > 
> > How many chipset do you know that support Intel's Pentium 
> Pro? Another 
> > chipset might require MMX/SSE support, not mentioning the 
> BIOS support 
> > which is needed...
> 
> I don't think that the chipset particularly cares what 
> extended instructions the CPU can execute... However, BIOS 
> support we are definitely lacking. IIRC, the BIOS we are 
> using doesn't do any PCI setup
> - so we rely on some code in pc.c and pci.c to make the 
> chipset look configured and to set up the BARs.
> 
> --
> Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>
> 
> 
> 
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