Re: [ES40-developers] Interesting messages from Tru64

[Fausto S. <fa...@un...>]

Hello Brian,

but where can I found the media and license for $100?
 From HP site? ebay?

thanks,
fausto

Quoting Brian Wheeler <bdw...@in...>:

> 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
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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