Re: [ES40-developers] Interesting messages from Tru64
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Re: [ES40-developers] Interesting messages from Tru64
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From: Brian W. <bdw...@in...> - 2008-02-27 18:40:44
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There used to be one offered by Compaq, but I don't know if HP carried it forward. For $100 you got media and a license of some sort. If you can find a copy of the media, you can run it and do some basic things without having the OSF-BASE license PAK. Technically, I think the only way to run Tru64 with any enjoyment (and legally) is to have a license. That said, I have heard of someone that found a way to generate valid licenses on VMS. With the ability to do that, you could generate an OSF-BASE license...both VMS' LICENSE and OSF's lmf use the same validation methods. Brian On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 19:28 +0100, Fausto Saporito wrote: > Hello all, > > about this subject, i'm wondering if there's an hobbyist license for Tru64. > Do you know if it's possible to subscribe such kind of licensing? > > thanks, > fausto > > Quoting Brian Wheeler <bdw...@in...>: > > > Turns out that the temperatures aren't actually in BCD but in degrees > > Celsius. This patch is a minor refactor of DPR, plus a change to the > > keyboard driver to ignore the the make/break commands so it'll come up > > with the vga card inserted. I'm going gather up a tru64 license and see > > if I can get cde to run. I'll probably also try the networking. > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:35 +0100, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote: > >> Hi Brian, > >> > >> The ES40 has a management processor that takes care of monitoring > >> power suppies, fans, and other hardware bits and pieces. It is > >> extremely difficult to find any information about this. I managed to > >> find some info in the ES40 service manual, and basically played a lot > >> with things to get them to show up properly in SRM. > >> > >> The management processor communicates with SRM - and I presume with > >> the OS - through a thing called Dual-Port-RAM. One port is connected > >> to the system bus, another to the management-processor. A lot of the > >> bytes are places where the OS can read device information, but in some > >> locations, the OS can deposit commands for the management-processor. > >> The following copmmands were found out through trial-and-error and > >> partial reverse engineering of SRM: > >> > >> Address locations for commands: > >> // 0xf9: buffer size > >> // 0xfb:fa qualifier / address > >> // 0xfc: completion code (0 = ok, 80 = error, 81 = invalid code, 82 > >> = invalid qualifier) > >> // 0xfd: rmc command id for response > >> // 0xfe: command code > >> // 0xff: rmc command id for command > >> > >> Command codes: > >> // 01: update EEPROM > >> // 02: update baud rate > >> // 03: write to OCP > >> // F0: update RMC flash > >> > >> It could very well be that there are more commands I don't know about, > >> and a failure to respond to these in a satisfactory manner may well be > >> the cause of the power supply failures and temperature warnings. > >> > >> You can find most of what I managed to find out in DPR.cpp. Mind you, > >> this is some of the oldest and least-touched code in the emulator. It > >> has not changed (other than some of the standard changes that have > >> been made to the entire emulator) for well over a year, and a lot of > >> my comments are still in Dutch. (I'm sorry about that...) It might be > >> a good idea to put some read/write tracers in DPR.cpp, and try to > >> figure out what Tru64 is doing with these. > >> > >> Camiel. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Brian Wheeler <bdw...@in...> wrote: > >> > I did a full install from dqb0 to dqa0 and while there were some > >> > timeouts (this build was before I started on the interrupt resend code) > >> > it installed and configured correctly (I left it run unattended > >> > overnight). > >> > > >> > However, once it came up, it started announcing hardware failures :) > >> > > >> > ----------------- > >> > Broadcast Message from ro...@tr... (???) at 23:37 ... > >> > > >> > The redundant power supply has failed. > >> > > >> > Broadcast Message from ro...@tr... (???) at 23:37 ... > >> > > >> > The system temperature is high. Possible reasons are > >> > a clogged air filter or a high ambient room temperature. > >> > The system will shut down in 14 minutes and 0 seconds.. > >> > ------------------ > >> > > >> > So...is there any documentation for the hardware monitoring stuff? > >> > > >> > Brian > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > >> > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > >> > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Es40-developers mailing list > >> > Es4...@li... > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/es40-developers > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > >> Defy all challenges. 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