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List:       bochs-dev
Subject:    Re: [Bochs-developers] State of the save/restore
From:       "Stanislav Shwartsman" <stlintel () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-10 15:30:32
Message-ID: 000001c9135a$2eb136c0$8c13a440$ () com
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It is all about devices internals ...
You need to know which variables to store from, say, VBE device, and how
restore them correctly.
For some cases it is also not enough just to restore the value and put into
appropriate variable.
Sometimes the fact that some variable contains some specific value means
that some service must be started and work - like timer, memory access
handler or I/O  port handler. I guess this kind of issue we have here ...

Stanislav

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[mailto:bochs-developers-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jakub
Debski
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:16 PM
To: bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bochs-developers] State of the save/restore

Stanislav Shwartsman said :
> It seems like some of devices state is not restored correctly, my guess
> graphics card state.
> Unfortunately I don't understand in devices and can't figure out the
problem
> alone 
> Need your help !

Shouldn't saving the emulation state be a simple serialization process? 
It doesn't require knowledge about devices, only about data structures 
used.
I will try to help.

Can I use STL working on it? It's a part of C++ Standard and Bochs is 
written in C++...
There is a Public Domain serialization library s11n. It uses ANSI C++ 
(no Boost) and seems to be serialization library with simple interface. 
What do you think about using it?
Do you prefer to have Bochs totally independent from other projects?

regards,
Jakub




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