1 Review changes committed to coreboot, virtualbox, qemu, kvm, and bochs
3 * bochs cvs 20081208: -- synched
4 * coreboot (r3348): 20060708 -- no noteworthy enhancements
5 * qemu (r6125): 20080603 -- acpi hpet table
6 * kvm (1a33292): 20081016 -- acpi dsdt changes, e820 vmx
7 pages, setup mtrrs, clear tsc, acpi intsrcovr table, different pci
8 irqs, smbios always uses 16 cpus, no acpi ssdt, fadt->gpe0_blk set
9 * virtualbox (r13560): 20061231 -- lots of mouse changes, logo,
10 scsi/etherboot hooks, int 1589, floppy data rate?, int19 calls
13 Possibly introduce a data type for the many seg/off pairs.
15 Audit all sti/cli calls. Audit all call16 calls to make sure flags is
16 setup properly with respect to irqs.
18 The __call16 code does a long jump to the interrupt trampolines - this
21 Possibly implement 32bit pcibios support.
23 Allow one to select adding 32 bit code to 0xf000 or in a separate
26 Implement bios post memory manager (PMM)?
28 Add support for calling BCVs (and registering ATA drives) in a user
31 Possibly add option to eliminate tsc based delays on emulators.
33 Add a kconfig style configuration program instead of requiring users
36 Look at integrating the lgpl vgabios into tree.
38 Look at usb booting specs. Look at possibly supporting usb
41 Add a graphical boot splash screen?