Subject: Re: SIMH runs NetBSD/vax
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/15/2002 17:25:22
>
> Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl> writes:
> > One thing SIMH maybe could do is change the meaning of an uncommon
> > sort of instruction that's effectively a No OPeration, which could
> > be inserted in the busy-wait. SIMH could treat it like a WAIT
> > instruction.
>
> This sounds like a good idea. I, for one, would really like to
> eliminate the busy-wait. Would this, or one of the other suggestions,
> be acceptable?
>
I think it would be best to take one of the "reserved for customer use"
instruction and use it as wait. It would be easy to do and a simple
patch for the idle loop.
-- Ragge