Re: VAX RPB (Restart Parameter Block)

[Roger Ivie <rivie%ridgenet.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> So the question is now how I can tell NetBSD that it should leave this area
> alone and 2nd how I can find out which memory area(s) this is on a particular
> system in a more generic way as hacking it in the sourcecode directly.

The console firmware is supposed to pass some information to the
bootstrap, including a pointer to a bitmap of available memory. The
operating system is supposed to use the bitmap to stay away from bad
memory.

I don't know the details because I've never written a VAX bootstrap...
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roger ivie
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