8 Jun
2016
8 Jun
'16
9:56 p.m.
On 6/8/2016 5:56 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
In an M9312 boot PROM there are 49. words of bootstrap space that are available
for code and data. Getting an MSCP boot to fit in that space required playing
some tricks like treating some specially crafted instructions as data values
(and vice versa).
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Don North
AK6DN
On Jun 8,
2016, at 6:46 PM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I wrote...
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
MSCP isn't all that hard. The RSTS
secondary loader fits in one block, and it contains not just code to speak MSCP but also
enough room for a map of pointers to where the code to load lives (as opposed to the
primary boot which just has to load one block from address zero).
paul 23-E39A9 is still lost to time, afaik. TMSCP -
TU81
To which mike replied...
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Could that not be reverse-engineered from the boot code in e.g. Emulex
UC17 ROMs? They could do TMSCP...
BTW what PROM blower would folks recommend for creating/imaging M9312 ROMs?
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Possibly, but some (me) are sticklers for original code. Plus, I am not sure, but I think
someone said this rom did something really bizarre to fit in the available rom space -
self modifying code or something...