Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kendall Bennett" <> | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 14:16:52 -0800 | Subject | Who owns the x86emu project? |
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Hi All,
I am trying to figure out who the author and/or current maintainer of the x86emu project is. The current DEC Alpah Milo sources (which don't appear to have been updated to 2.2 yet) include the x86emu library, which is used to run the BIOS on the ISA/PCI graphics controller to initialise it when the system boots. The emulator works on some cards, but it lacking lots of support code for 32-bit instructions in 16-bit code (ie: mov eax,ebx etc with the operand size prefix).
Anyway, I have had some great success so far on some graphics cards with this emulator, and I want to flesh it out and make it work on all graphics cards. When I am done, we will be able to use this emulator to bring up graphics cards on any system with an ISA/PCI/AGP bus, as well as use it to bring up secondary controllers on x86 systems that are not POST'ed by the BIOS. It could also be used by the Linux kernel on any processor to allow the VESA fbcon driver to safely make calls to the BIOS at runtime to do things such as change display modes and program the color palette.
However before I dive head first into this, I would like to find out where the absolute latest version of the sources are so I don't end up doing duplicate work. Also if there is a different, but more complete x86 emulator library around, perhaps I should work with that instead.
Regards,
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