Bochs simulator and pc386 BSP

[Rosimildo daSilva]

From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
To: rtems-users at OARcorp.com <rtems-users at OARcorp.com>
Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: Bochs simulator and pc386 BSP


>
>In looking at Erwin Rol's notes on his Bochs success and checking
>the Bochs page, I believe that Bochs simulates enough PC peripherals
>where one should be able to FULLY exercise RTEMS on the simulator.
>This includes the network stack and Microwindows.  Bochs simulates
>an NE2000 .. so there is enough to do the network stack.  I assume
>it can do SVGA, keyboard, and mouse so there is Microwindows.
>
>I am mentioning this because I can not investigate this further
>at this time but think it looks incredibly promising since you
>can then debug things under Linux without having a second PC. :)
>

Do you know if this works under CygWin ?


>I hope someone takes the challenge of checking out the pc386 BSP
>more fully with Bochs and lets everyone know about their results.
>


Me too. :-)

Rosimildo.