[Info-vax] x86 Update 01/20/19

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 4:16:20 PM UTC-5, clair... at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> http://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
> 
> The above is now two weeks old and we are further along in creating and starting the SYSINIT process.
> 
> We had been skipping around creating the complete I/O database, based on walking the ACPI tables, but that is now complete. We now go end-to-end through INIT.MAR with no side steps.
> 
> We are about to make it through a variety of page faults, creating the process page tables, and changing to exec mode. There was a lot of new code written many months ago that we are finally getting to step our way through.
> 
> We can boot the dump kernel.
> 
> We get as far on a DL380 as we do on VBox.

Great news!

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
http://neilrieck.net/