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+DEVELOPER/HACKING/DESIGN
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+- bochs bios.
+
+ we expect most of the bochs patches will be rolled back into
+ the bochs mainline.
+
+ thus when designing an patch for rombios.c both needs of
+ linuxbios as well as bochs needed to be taken into
+ consideration.
+
+- there are motherboard specific code in loader.s. until this issue
+ is fixed, you need to adjust various motherboard specific
+ settings in loader.s In particular control of the
+ shadow ram.
+