Subject: Re: KA630 ROM routine console I/O support in boot and standalone tools
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/15/1998 11:06:21
> I've added support for the KA630 ROM console I/O routines in boot and
> the other standalone stuff.  Now on the KA630 the ROM is used instead of
> the serial console processor registers.  This works for QDSS and I hope
> it also works for the serial console and QVSS, but I haven't tried it.  
> 
Wonderful! Perfect!

> The only problem is that xxboot is now a bit bigger (8248 bytes instead
> of 8080 bytes).  edlabel warns me that it overlaps the a and c
> partitions and refuses to write it to disk.  I thought that 16k is
> available.
> 
No, only 8K is available (16 blocks). But I'll fix that; the bootblocks
doesn't actually need to be able to do printouts...

-- Ragge