es40 firmware change: memory test much slower

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es40 firmware change: memory test much slower

Forum: ES40 Emulator

Creator: scruty

Created: 2010-10-13

Updated: 2013-04-03

scruty - 2010-10-13

With the latest firmware from HP for es40* (as linked in http://www.es40.org/Getting_the_firmware ) memory test takes *much longer*. (I found no SRM-command to disable this.)

The es40 fw with fast memory test:

size=692736 2006-06-12 10:19 cl67srmrom.exe (emulator produced size=2097168 decompressed.rom)

the current es40 fw with *much slower* memory test:
size=693248 2007-03-05 10:18 cl67srmrom.exe (emulator produced size=2097168 decompressed.rom)

Funnily the decompressed.rom generated when es40 runs and can't find this file, have identical size.

Are we allowed to upload the previous fw here?

*) ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/alphaserver/firmware/current_platforms/v7.3_release/ES40_series/ES40/es40.zip

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scruty - 2010-10-13

it is the line 'drawing' the dots which takes 'forever' now when using the latest HP es40 fw:

Memory size 1024 MB

testing memory

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the first line of the SRM console

OpenVMS PALcode V1.98-104, Tru64 UNIX PALcode V1.92-105

didn't change. so I guess we don't loose anything by using the previous fw.

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