On 7 July 2012 23:00, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, July 07, 2012 at 1:31 PM David Brownlee wrote: >> I'm assuming the switching of IPL to 1 and then immediately back is OK >> for simh in this situation - could you confirm? > > This is exactly the goal. > IPL 1 is not used anywhere in the NetBSD kernel so this the transition to IPL > 1 can be used as the idle trigger for that OS. > > This is equivalent to the suggested macro change. > >> Assuming so I can submit a pullup of this change into the netbsd-6 >> branch so it will make the NetBSD-6 release, and potentially submit it >> into the netbsd-5 and even netbsd-4 branches so anyone building from >> the head of those branches can also benefit.
Confirmed the netbsd-5 tree runs fine with the change and pullup submitted. One question - could I confirm the syntax in simh-vax for the cpu idle conmmand? Am I missing anything? sim> show cpu CPU, idle disabled, 256MB, HALT to SIMH sim> set cpu idle Command not allowed sim> set cpu idle=VMS thats with a load -r .../ka655x.bin and set cpu 256m Thanks! _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
