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

[Jon Pinkley]

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.

Sometime within the last week the update page has new items lists.  It previously was "stuck" at Load I/O Database.  There are new items, with many being updated.  Here is the list as of 2019-03-12

Proof Point Snapshot


•  Proof Point 1 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Stop at end-of-SYSBOOT breakpoint & issue “;L” to XDELTA




	•  Proof Point 2 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Transition to the Runtime Environment      


	•  Proof Point 3 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Execute first system service call      


	•  Proof Point 4 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Display early loaded image list      


	•  Proof Point 5 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Display VSI welcome banner      


	•  Proof Point 6 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Create PFN database and allocate pool      


	•  Proof Point 7 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Transfer to runtime interrupt dispatching      


	•  Proof Point 8 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   System Service transfer vectors in place      


	•  Proof Point 9 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Initialization for primary CPU      


	•  Proof Point 10 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Load remaining execlets      


	•  Proof Point 11 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Reach End of INIT breakpoint      


	•  Proof Point 12 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Display complete loaded image list      


	•  Proof Point 13 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Lower IPL      


	•  Proof Point 14 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Schedule SWAPPER process      


	•  Proof Point 15 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Enter SWAPPER main loop      


	•  Proof Point 16 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   $CREPRC; process appears on COMO queue      


	•  Proof Point 17 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Create I/O database      


	•  Proof Point 18 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Set system time      


	•  Proof Point 19 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Establish interval timer      


	•  Proof Point 20 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Load SYS$TTDRIVER      


	•  Proof Point 21 - ACHIEVED
	  

	   Load SYS$DMDRIVER      


	•  Proof Point 22 - PENDING
	

	   Initialize file system      


	

	•  Proof Point 23 - PENDING
	

	   Mount system disk      


	

	•  Proof Point 24 - PENDING
	

	   Create logical names      


	

	•  Proof Point 25 - PENDING
	

	   Reach the end of SYSINIT      


	

	•  Proof Point 26 - PENDING
	

	   Start DCL      


	

	•  Proof Point 27 - PENDING
	 
	   Execute DIRECTORY command