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Subject: [Bochs-cvs] CVS: bochs/doc/docbook/user user.dbk,1.202,1.203
From: Stanislav Shwartsman <sshwarts () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2006-01-29 21:02:58
Message-ID: E1F3JhK-0004OK-Fr () sc8-pr-cvs1 ! sourceforge ! net
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Update of /cvsroot/bochs/bochs/doc/docbook/user
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv16397/docbook/user
Modified Files:
user.dbk
Log Message:
Small update of user docs
Index: user.dbk
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/bochs/bochs/doc/docbook/user/user.dbk,v
retrieving revision 1.202
retrieving revision 1.203
diff -u -d -r1.202 -r1.203
--- user.dbk 29 Jan 2006 08:44:12 -0000 1.202
+++ user.dbk 29 Jan 2006 21:02:55 -0000 1.203
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@
<row>
<entry>--enable-pni</entry>
<entry>no</entry>
- <entry>PNI support</entry>
+ <entry>Add support for PNI (SSE3) instructions</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>--enable-sep</entry>
@@ -2223,6 +2223,11 @@
<entry>SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support</entry>
</row>
<row>
+ <entry>--enable-vme</entry>
+ <entry>no (yes for <link linkend="configure-enable-cpu-level">CPU</link> >= \
5)</entry> + <entry>Add support for VME (v8086 mode extensions)</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<entry>--enable-compressed-hd</entry>
<entry>no</entry>
<entry>
@@ -2253,12 +2258,12 @@
</row>
<row>
<entry>--enable-disasm</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
<entry>Compile in support for built-in disassembler. Bochs has
a built-in disassembler, which is useful if you either
run the built-in debugger (--enable-debugger), or want
disassembly of the current instruction when there is a
- panic in bochs. You don't need this option.</entry>
+ panic in bochs.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>--enable-cpp</entry>
@@ -3097,8 +3102,6 @@
<row><entry>1.6Ghz</entry><entry>Intel P4 with Win2000/g++ 3.3 </entry><entry> 5 to \
7 million</entry></row> <row><entry>650MHz</entry><entry>Athlon K-7 with Linux 2.4.x \
</entry><entry> 2 to 2.5 million</entry></row> \
<row><entry>400MHz</entry><entry>Pentium II with Linux 2.0.x </entry><entry> 1 to \
1.8 million</entry></row>
-<row><entry>166MHz</entry><entry>64bit Sparc with Solaris 2.x </entry><entry> \
0.75 million</entry></row>
-<row><entry>200MHz</entry><entry>Pentium with Linux 2.x </entry><entry> \
0.5 million</entry></row> </tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
@@ -3561,7 +3564,7 @@
You may use those special tokens :
<screen>
%t : 11 decimal digits timer tick
- %i : 8 hexadecimal digits of cpu0 current eip
+ %i : 8 hexadecimal digits of current cpu eip (ignored in SMP configuration)
%e : 1 character event type ('i'nfo, 'd'ebug, 'p'anic, 'e'rror)
%d : 5 characters string of the device, between brackets
</screen>
@@ -5701,14 +5704,14 @@
</para>
<para>
-What was required to make SMP work in Bochs? (Note that only Linux 2.2
-has been tested so far.)
+What was required to make SMP work in Bochs?
+
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para> local APIC on each processor with timer
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> one I/O APIC model
</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para> implement RDTSC feature (read time stamp counter)
+<listitem><para> implement RDTSC (read time stamp counter)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> a data structure called the Intel Multiprocessor Configuration
must be present in BIOS memory space. An SMP-aware operating system probes BIOS
@@ -5716,6 +5719,10 @@
processors, their IDs, interrupt sources, etc. Starting with Bochs 2.2.5 these
structures are dynamicly created by Bochs.
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para> ACPI support is required to boot SMP system in most of modern
+operating systems. For example WinXP 64 bit require ACPI support even for
+single processor configuration. Still not supported by Bochs.
+</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
@@ -5729,15 +5736,14 @@
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-test on SMP systems other than linux 2.2.14
+test on any possible SMP operating systems. Currently success reported for
+Knoppix 4.0.2 and WinNT 4.0 SMP.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-several parts of the APIC model which weren't needed for linux 2.2.14
-are not implemented yet and cause a panic. If you boot linux 2.4.3 for
-example, it says "panic: cluster model addressing not implemented". See
-<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=421938&group_id=12580&atid=362580">bug \
report #421938</ulink> for tips on getting linux 2.4 to boot.
-(The apic is not the only problem!)
+several parts of the APIC model which weren't needed before are not
+implemented yet and cause a panic. If you boot linux 2.4.3 for
+example, it says "panic: cluster model addressing not implemented".
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
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