Re: Clock Error

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-12-19 23:45, Mouse wrote:
>>> I wonder if idle detection plays a role...
>> I have idle detection enabled, and it is working.
> 
> Oh, that reminds me: what is it that simh recognizes as an idle loop?
> Someone quoted the code here, but (a) that was a long time ago and I'm
> not sure I can find it easily and (b) it doesn't clearly delinate what
> signals simh versus what is unrelated accident-of-the-implementation
> code.

Unless I misremember, it raises the IPL to 1. A level that is otherwise 
meaningless, so not something done by mistake, and not something used by 
anything.

   Johnny

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