[Info-vax] Suggested enhancement to SDA, was: Re: Processes hang on USB-access

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In article <svtq9p$vp2$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2022-03-03, Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>> there are no SDA> USB SHOW EHCI commands.
>>
>
>[snip]
>
>Pity. If VSI want to consider it, a nice enhancement to VMS would
>be to provide an analysis module as part of each VMS-supplied device
>driver which would plug into a public documented SDA plugin architecture.
>
>Such a module would allow all the registers and data structures for
>the device to be examined and formatted in a human readable format,
>including being able to display, in one command, all the data structures
>which were part of a specific higher-level data structure listed in
>that command.
>
>That way, you would easily, for example, be able to see the contents
>of all the TD entries in a queue without having to manually examine
>each entry one by one.

SMH!

RTFM: OpenVMS System Analysis Tools Manual
RTFC: Chapter 10. SDA Extensions and Callable Routines

Have at it.

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