Hello from Gregg C Levine
As it happens, Jason, yes I have. It also happens this is how I am running
NetBSD/vax. I followed the instructions that Lars created on that howto on
the website for doing it, and with advice from Bob Soupnik, (Which I follow
carefuly.), it just works. Now as to the  DELQA module: Did you have any
problems compiling the updated code? And more importantly what sort of
patches were these? The author David Hittner, first provided an e-mail
address in the first version of the readme file, in the zip file from the
website, and it, (the e-mail address did not work.). Or more correctly to
ask the question, were they sent to Bob? Or to David Hittner? I am
attempting to compile the code here, but my environment, MinGW, isn't being
very cooperative. I suspect it has to do with the way the maintainers of
MinGW, interpreted the way GCC works. Now as to the module, that is a
problem, which I've been trying to find out about, myself, I think this
website might have information on it.
http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm I suspect it should have
something. If the website isn't asleep that is.
Gregg C Levine drwho8@worldnet.att.net
"Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason R Thorpe" <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: SIMH and DELQA module


> So, you may have heard that there is now an experimental DELQA module
> available for SIMH.  I ported the Ethernet layer of the simulator to
> NetBSD (I have already sent patches back to the author) and started
> playing around with it.  So far, it works well enough to load the boot
> loader via MOP and then the kernel via NFS.
>
> Here's a transcript, simulator running on my laptop:
>
> dhcp7:thorpej 14$ ./vax
>
> VAX simulator V2.10-0
> sim> attach xq0 ex0
> sim> set rq0 ra92
> sim> at rq0 rq0.ra92
> sim> set rq1 offline
> sim> set rq2 offline
> sim> set rq3 offline
> sim> boot cpu
> Loading boot code from ka655.bin
>
>
> KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
> Performing normal system tests.
> 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
> 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
> 08..07..06..05..04..03..
> Tests completed.
> >>>boot xqa0
> (BOOT/R5:0 XQA0)
>
>
>
>   2..
> -XQA0
>   1..0..
>
>
> >> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11 Mon Feb 18 15:08:05 PST 2002] <<
> >> Press any key to abort autoboot 4
> Press '?' for help
> > boot netbsd.gen
> Trying BOOTP
> Using IP address: 208.176.2.173
> myip: dhcp0.shagadelic.org (208.176.2.173)
> root addr=208.176.2.162 path=/u1/diskless/vax
> 1509768+209472 [143792+103861]=0x1e0510
> [ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
> [ no symbol table formats found ]
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> NetBSD 1.5ZC (GENERIC) #4: Sat Apr 27 18:45:09 PDT 2002
>
thorpej@yeah-baby.shagadelic.org:/u1/netbsd/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
>
> MicroVAX 3800/3900
> cpu: KA655, CVAX microcode rev 6 Firmware rev 83
> total memory = 16328 KB
> avail memory = 11852 KB
> using 229 buffers containing 916 KB of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> ibus0 at mainbus0
> uba0 at ibus0: Q22
> dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 304 ipl 15
> mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 15
> mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 5 model 3
> mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50
> mt1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: TK50
> mt2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: TK50
> mt3 at mscpbus0 drive 3: TK50
> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 15
> mscpbus1 at uda0: version 3 model 3
> mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
> ra0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RA92
> Bus error (core dumped)
> dhcp7:thorpej 15$
>
> ...it's crashing deep in the bowels of the XQ simulator module... I'm
> going to try and debug that today.  But, in any case, progress :-)
>
> Note that I'm not sure how well (if at all) NetBSD's "qe" driver is going
> to work, right now ... the XQ module only currently simulates the DELQA;
> the DEQNA mode hasn't been completed yet ... but the boot loader was able
> to talk to it, so I'm somewhat hopeful :-)  (Incidently, can someone
refresh
> my memory as do the differences between the DELQA and the DEQNA?)
>
> Anyway, once I get things working, I'll update pkgsrc with the current
> beta versions of the sim and XQ module, and my patches.  It'll be nice
> to be able to run the sim on my 2.4GHz Xeon with Ethernet support :-)
>
> --
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>