Hi.
On 2016-08-31 04:43, Cory Smelosky wrote:
4.5 exhibits the same "now it's suddenly in DEQNA" mode behaviour.
Well, then I retract my guess. By 4.5 I would expect the code to handle
a DELQA natively. Ragge also posted the source code for 4.5, which
clearly states that it should handle the DELQA...
(it also panic()s every first boot after first starting the emulator)
Huh. That really do sound like a bug. Since it don't happen on real
hardware I would guess a simh issue. What kind of VAX are you emulating,
by the way? The 3900?
Johnny
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at 08:04, Clem Cole wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
Not sure there are any bugs here. Ultrix might just change it to run in DEQNA
mode. Maybe because it didnät have a driver for running it in DELQA mode in
4.0? Just guessing here, but it don't look to me as if there actually is a bug
anywhere.
I've long since forgotten the details. The 4.5 SPD says it should work
(modulo firmware - which I suspect simh is assuming that). Johnny is probably
right.
Cory: Is there a reason you are running 4.0 not not something later than 4.4.
There a ton of bugs fixed in the 4.3/4.4 development. The Vax has sort of been
forgotten by the Ultrix/Tru64 teams in favor of the PMAX and the Alpha; thus
entropy had set in on the Vax code. Even though 4.3 was not an officially bug
release, it had more bug fixes in that any previous one, because a number of
just got sick of dealing with it and there was a 3-4 week development hiatus
where we just cleaned up things. IIRC this was particularly true for the
networking stack, because we were heaving pathworks development then and the
Pathworks stack kept turning up small boundary conditions in the Unix side.
Anyway -- if you are going to run Ultrix, I highly recommend 4.5 - which was
really the most stable of the all the Ultrix releases. For instance, the SCSI
stack is (finally) common with Tru64, as we back ported Fred's Alpha stack to
the Vax and PMAX. As a result it will cover a lot more devices. I seem to
remember we did some similar things in the Network code too, but again I've
forgotten (I was worrying about TruClusters at that time but would occasionally
consult to the Ultrix folks).
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