[Simh] Issues with VH simulation and 4.3BSD-Quasijarus

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Mar 9 16:25:37 EST 2017


On 2017-03-09 19:09, Clem Cole wrote:
> It looks that way..., but I need some help from Bob or Mark on VH
> history,   That was developed at DEC during the period I was off doing
> Masscomp/Stellar et al.   During my time earlier time with PDP11 and
> Vaxen,  you used DEC DZ's or DEC DH's or Able DHDM's.   As I understand
> it, DVH was the mid 1980s' redo of the DH to single board but identical
> in SW (i.e. was similar to the Able DHDM) - but I never saw one - so I
> don't know what the default addresses, iqr's etc are.  I am assuming you
> are defaulting same which means they are what DEC used.

Are we talking DH-11, DHU-11 or DHV-11?
DH-11 was never supported on VAXen. DHU-11 is conceptually the same, but 
it is not software compatible.
DHV-11 was is a qbus device, which can be setup to be compatible with a 
DHU-11.

> BSD 4.3 would have been using Able DHDM's so those are the original
> addresses of the DEC DH from the PDP-11.
>
> So my question what were the default addresses for the DVH and then from
> a simulator stand point, and if different, what happens if you configure
> them like the original DH11?

And my first question would be, what kind of device is the DVH?

	Johnny

>
> Clem
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net
> <mailto:b4 at gewt.net>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     Seems 4.3BSD isn't seeing a DH-11 at all:
>
>     4.3 BSD Quasijarus UNIX #0: Sun Mar  7 12:42:05 PST 2004
>         root at ucbvax:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>     real mem  = 67108864
>     SYSPTSIZE limits number of buffers to 18
>     avail mem = 65271808
>     using 18 buffers containing 147456 bytes of memory
>     VAX 11/780, serial# 1234(0), hardware ECO level 7(112)
>     mcr0 (el) at tr1
>     mcr1 (el) at tr2
>     uba0 at tr3
>     tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774, ipl 15
>     tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0
>     tms1 at tmscp0 slave 1
>     uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770, ipl 15
>     uda0: version 3 model 6
>     uda0: DMA burst size set to 4
>     ra0 at uda0 slave 0: ra92, size = 2940951 sectors
>     Changing root device to ra0a
>
>     SHOW CONFIGURATION:
>     VAX 11/780 simulator configuration
>
>     CPU     idle=VMS, idle enabled, model=VAX 11/780
>             64MB, HALT to SIMH
>     TLB     2 units
>       TLB0    8192W
>       TLB1    8192W
>     SBI
>     MCTL0   nexus=1, address=20002000
>     MCTL1   nexus=2, address=20004000
>     UBA     nexus=3, address=20006000, autoconfiguration enabled
>     MBA0    disabled
>     MBA1    disabled
>     TODR
>             12B
>     TMR
>     TTI
>             7b
>     TTO
>             7b
>     CS
>             256KB, not attached, write enabled
>     TC      disabled
>     TDC     disabled
>     DZ      disabled
>     VH      address=2013E120-2013E15F*, vector=C0-DC*, BR4, lines=64, 4
>     units
>       VH0     attached to 8070, DHU mode, Modem
>             0 current connections
>       VH1     DHU mode
>       VH2     DHU mode
>       VH3     DHU mode
>     CR      disabled
>     LPT     disabled
>     RP      disabled
>     RL      disabled
>     HK      disabled
>     RK      disabled
>     RQ      address=2013F468-2013F46B, vector=1F8*, BR5, UDA50, 4 units
>       RQ0     1505MB, attached to ucbvax-ra92-root.dsk, write enabled
>             RD54, autosize, SIMH format
>     RQB     disabled
>     RQC     disabled
>     RQD     disabled
>     RY      address=2013FE78-2013FE7B, vector=B4, BR5, 2 units
>       RY0     512KB, not attached, write enabled
>             double density
>       RY1     512KB, not attached, write enabled
>             double density
>     TU      disabled
>     TS      disabled
>     TQ      TU81 (180MB), address=2013F940-2013F943, vector=1FC*, BR5, 4
>     units
>       TQ0     not attached, write enabled, SIMH format
>             capacity=188MB
>       TQ1     not attached, write enabled, SIMH format
>             capacity=188MB
>       TQ2     not attached, write enabled, SIMH format
>             capacity=188MB
>       TQ3     not attached, write enabled, SIMH format
>             capacity=188MB
>     XU      disabled
>     XUB     disabled
>     DMC     disabled
>
>     VAX 11/780 simulator V4.0-0 Beta
>             Simulator Framework Capabilities:
>                     64b data
>                     64b addresses
>                     Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP:NAT:UDP
>                     Idle/Throttling support is available
>                     Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
>                     Asynchronous I/O support
>                     Asynchronous Clock support
>                     FrontPanel API Version 4
>             Host Platform:
>                     Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0
>                     (clang-800.0.42.1)
>                     Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Release Build) on Mar
>                      8 2017 at 19:55:19
>                     Memory Access: Little Endian
>                     Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
>                     Large File (>2GB) support
>                     SDL Video support: No Video Support
>                     PCRE RegEx support for EXPECT commands
>                     OS clock resolution: 1ms
>                     Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
>                     OS: Darwin maelona.local 16.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version
>                     16.4.0: Thu Dec 22 22:53:21 PST 2016;
>                     root:xnu-3789.41.3~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>             git commit id: b41d10f1
>
>     Excerpt from kernel config:
>     device          dhu0    at uba? csr 0160440             vector dhurint
>     dhuxint
>
>     Is it a config error?
>
>     --
>       Cory Smelosky
>       b4 at gewt.net <mailto:b4 at gewt.net>
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