Sounds like a great idea :)

	If you base it on the boot program then you have a bunch of
	extra code available in /sys/lib/libsa, some of which may
	be helpful


		David/absolute

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> This is a weird question, but I just built a new booter and tried it out to
> make sure it worked (it did) and that got me thinking that really I could
> build what ever I wanted and have it "boot" into the VAX. That means one
> could presumably load and execute a program that needed only the CPU, some
> memory, and a working network interface to load a program. 
> 
> Has anyone written any sorts of tests/diagnostics for various cards? I've
> got a few Memory cards that are questionable so I thought I could write a
> walking ones and zeroes test, and of course there is the Sigma disk card
> that I want to exercise with the MSCP protocol. 
> 
> --Chuck
> 
>