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Re: [Qemu-devel] Intel 440bx hardware emulation correctness
From: |
Cristi Magherusan |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Intel 440bx hardware emulation correctness |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:37:53 +0300 |
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 14:35 +0300, Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> 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.
>
> This only affects the BIOS code that does RAM detection, so the Bochs
> BIOS code would also need to be changed accordingly.
Actually, in fact I'm interested to find out wether there are other
differences between qemu and a real 440bx-based motherboard, besides RAM
detection.
I'm asking because I'm willing to rewrite the coreboot qemu support code
based on the generic northbridge/southbridge code.
Thanks,
Cristi
--
Ing. Cristi Măgherușan, System/Network Engineer
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247
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