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>Chapter 7. Feedback and Support</H1
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>7.1. The Bochs project on SourceForge</A
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>7.1.1. SourceForge tickets section (bug and patch trackers)</A
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>There are some requirements when submitting bug reports, patches and feature
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>7.1.1.1. Reporting errors from Bochs compilation</A
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>When reporting errors while building Bochs to the <A
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>bochs-developers mailing list</A
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> or the SF bug
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tracker for the Bochs project, this information is required to fix the issue:
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>host platorm / build environment</P
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>Bochs release version or SVN revision</P
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>configure options used</P
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>full error message</P
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>config.log output if configure failure</P
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>source file name and line number if compile error</P
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>Before reporting us the issue, make sure that a similar one hasn't been already
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reported or someone created a patch to fix it. If you are familiar with C++
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and you can write some code to fix your problem, you can post it in the <A
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>bochs-developers mailing list</A
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or submit the patch in SF patch tracker for Bochs.</P
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>7.1.1.2. Reporting Bochs runtime issues</A
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>If Bochs does not work properly (e.g. panic, segfault, malfunction of emulated device)
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we need some information to find out what's going on:
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if self-compiled)</P
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>host platorm / build environment (if self-compiled)</P
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>bochsrc options used</P
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>error message (if panic or program termination)</P
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>log file output (related section only if too big)</P
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>7.1.1.3. Submitting a patch for Bochs</A
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>Patches for Bochs should be provided in the "unified diff" format. In addition
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>patch applies to Bochs release version / SVN revision</P
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>test case (if required)</P
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>When you are are interested in writing a patch to fix bugs or add new features,
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you should have a look at the <A
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For some parts of the Bochs code we have already written some basic information.</P
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