On Sat, 31 May 1997, Paul Evans wrote:

> Anyway the feature I'm always missing on non-sun3 machines is the ability
> to do some fairly rudimentry hardware checks.

What's wrong with the ROM routines that do this on the VAXen? Or
is the VS2000 the only one that has test commands built in to the
monitor?

Anyway, I don't see any reason to clutter up the boot loader with
test code; build a standalone program that gets loaded like the
kernel does, boot that instead of your regular kernel, and you've
got as much room as you want for hardware diagnostics.

cjs

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