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From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@me.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: richard.henderson@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] PALcode fixes for guest OS console initialization
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:29:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0431974F-C568-4617-962E-7EA66E048595@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210613210934.21143-1-thorpej@me.com>



> On Jun 13, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@me.com> wrote:
> 
> but there is still some research going on about how
> real DEC SRM initializes a particular field in various circumstances;
> this is my best guess based on available documentation and observed
> behavior of real machines, and is sufficient for the BSD operating systems.

FWIW, I have since confirmed my hypothesis about how genuine DEC SRM fills in the "type" and "term_type" fields on 2 different generations of PCI-based Alpha systems (i.e. it matches the patch submitted here).

-- thorpej



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-15  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-13 21:09 [PATCH v2 0/1] PALcode fixes for guest OS console initialization Jason Thorpe
2021-06-13 21:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] Provide a minimal Console Terminal Block in the HWRPB Jason Thorpe
2021-06-15  0:29 ` Jason Thorpe [this message]
2021-06-15  3:51   ` [PATCH v2 0/1] PALcode fixes for guest OS console initialization Richard Henderson

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