Subject: Re: MI code and the VAX port
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/18/1998 10:20:41
> 
> I'm adding on focusing the VS4000/60 and getting its SCSI and Sound
> ports working.  It would make my life easier if the VAX port was 
> closer to other ports in some respects.
> 
> 2) Nuke vsbus.  On the {MV,VS}2000/3100/4000, just connect the
>    devices to mainbus0.  For example the VS4000/60 would be:
> 
[..]
The reason that vsbus was invented was to hold resources; merely
which part of the DMA area that is allocated for what and to 
lock the registers for simultaneous access. If this can be done
with the bus_* code, good! I don't know enough about this.
Otherwise there must be some way to keep the bus resources for 
both the VS3100 and VS4000. The VS4000 map reg implementation is
much more like the Unibus and can maybe be forced to share the
same resource keeping scheme.

The rest of the points would be just 'OK'.

-- Ragge