new flavors:
no_mmx - do not build with mmx support
no_comp - do not build with compressed hard drive support
Also new in this version is the vga font is compiled into the binary, no
more 'xset fp+ ..' or editing XF86Config to run bochs!
Changes in 2.0 (December 21, 2002):
Since the change log is hundreds of lines long, here is a very brief summary.
- 2x emulation speedup!!!
- added plugin devices and guis. Now you can compile with many more
options, and choose between them at runtime.
- added emulation of AMD x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2 instructions
- add wxWindows port (a graphical configuration interface and display lib)
and SVGAlib port (full screen display for Linux without X11)
- improvements in many I/O devices: for example up to 8 hard disks/cdroms,
TUN/TAP network interface, 360k floppies,
- improved MacOSX/Carbon interface and updated MacOS9 port
- GDB remote stub, allows symbolic debugging with Bochs simulation.
- support for up to 32gig hard disk images
o too many changes to mention specifically, but amongst them:
- better error reporting
- openbsd boots, freebsd boots
- new 'term' flavor, I added a textmode interface, the only drawback
is that control-c is intercepted, and you must kill -9 it from
another tty if it doesn't exit normally
- new flavors:
- debugger -> debug (for shortness)
- i386
- pci
- smp
- net (compiles, does not yet provide networking, if anyone
wants to help, I'd be ELATED to have this fixed!)
- no_x11 (made it actually work)
- term (make sure to use 'log: /dev/null' or something else
on the cmdline, otherwise, debugging and the screen will
start getting quite confusing!)
- better error reporting (and no error reporting where it is not
necessary; a typicall boot of cdrom28.fs is a screenful of output now)
- in general, if the hardware reaches an unknown state, fail
gracefully instead of calling exit(1) .. are we trying to work or
are we trying to .. fail? I like working myself.
