Subject: Re: Sigh, will DSSI disks *ever* work with NetBSD?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/22/2002 12:30:43
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:25:24 -0500
> Subject: Re: Sigh, will DSSI disks *ever* work with NetBSD?
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
>
> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 01:51 AM, you wrote:
> >> FWIW, I have the RQDX3 firmware source code + the MSCP and UQSSP
> >> specification. :) It might not be as non-trivial as you think.
>
> The RQDX3 uses a T-11, right? Is that firmware done in assembler or
> a higher-level language? (I'd be surprised if it weren't assembler but
> I suppose there's no guarantee)
Well, you could run a PDP11 simulator on some readily
available x86 chip and run the T11 code on that. Ugh.
I'll have to dig a RQDX3 out of the old-boards box and
look for the presence of magic ASICs.
carl
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