[Simh] What happened to IDLE?

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the
two I'll need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a
Raspberry Pi3. I even added the options for networking that the README
wanted.

So running PDP11 I then saw this happen, and the VAX as well:
***@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/emul/simh/BIN/pdp11

PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU 11/73, NOCIS, autoconfiguration enabled, idle disabled
256KB
sim> exit
Goodbye
***@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/emul/simh/BIN/vax

MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU idle disabled, model=VAXServer 3900 (KA655), NOAUTOBOOT
16MB, HALT to SIMH
sim> exit
Goodbye
***@raspberrypi:~ $

It shows idle disabled. Okay how do I enable it on both? I haven't
decided on a target for them but given that networking on SIMH works
best connected to a fixed source....... Anyway I remembered that any
commentary here would need to show those first two lines.
-----
Gregg C Levine ***@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

[Mark Pizzolato]

Post by Gregg Levine
Hello!
I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the two I'll
need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a Raspberry Pi3. I even
added the options for networking that the README wanted.
PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU 11/73, NOCIS, autoconfiguration enabled, idle disabled
256KB
sim> exit
Goodbye
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU idle disabled, model=VAXServer 3900 (KA655), NOAUTOBOOT
16MB, HALT to SIMH
sim> exit
Goodbye
It shows idle disabled. Okay how do I enable it on both? I haven't decided on a
target for them but given that networking on SIMH works best connected to a
fixed source....... Anyway I remembered that any commentary here would
need to show those first two lines.

You do know that idling starts disabled, right. You have to explicitly enable it
with a SET CPU IDLE command. There are certain conditions when the
SET CPU IDLE won't work.

Presuming SET CPU IDLE doesn't work, I could give a better answer if you
provided:
1) the output of SHOW VERSION at the sim> prompt
2) the output produced by make when you built one of these simulators.
and optionally:
3) The configuration file(s) you're using.

- Mark

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
I confess I didn't know that. And given what happens next regarding
the PDP11 one, I shall certainly do all of that, if something does not
work. For option 2 I didn't bother to save the output shown when
making it, so I'll do that again, and save it to a text file.

For SHOW VERSION, shouldn't it be the same as what's shown in my selection?
-----
Gregg C Levine ***@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

Post by Mark Pizzolato

Post by Gregg Levine
Hello!
I grabbed the sources from GIT earlier today. And promptly built the two I'll
need. PDP11 for one, and the VAX ones for the other on a Raspberry Pi3. I even
added the options for networking that the README wanted.
PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU 11/73, NOCIS, autoconfiguration enabled, idle disabled
256KB
sim> exit
Goodbye
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current git commit id: 49cfac90
sim> show cpu
CPU idle disabled, model=VAXServer 3900 (KA655), NOAUTOBOOT
16MB, HALT to SIMH
sim> exit
Goodbye
It shows idle disabled. Okay how do I enable it on both? I haven't decided on a
target for them but given that networking on SIMH works best connected to a
fixed source....... Anyway I remembered that any commentary here would
need to show those first two lines.

You do know that idling starts disabled, right. You have to explicitly enable it
with a SET CPU IDLE command. There are certain conditions when the
SET CPU IDLE won't work.
Presuming SET CPU IDLE doesn't work, I could give a better answer if you
1) the output of SHOW VERSION at the sim> prompt
2) the output produced by make when you built one of these simulators.
3) The configuration file(s) you're using.
- Mark

[Mark Pizzolato]

I confess I didn't know that. And given what happens next regarding the PDP11
one, I shall certainly do all of that, if something does not work.

Great.

For option 2 I didn't bother to save the output shown when making it, so I'll
do that again, and save it to a text file.

If there is a real problem (vs pilot error or innocent ignorance), then the build
output will be useful to help track things down and fix the problem. These
details help to provide enough information so that the problem can be
reproduced and addressed directly.

For SHOW VERSION, shouldn't it be the same as what's shown in my selection?

Please compare the results of what you provided to what was asked for and I
suspect you'll know the answer. :-)

If there is a real problem, and the information provide in an email based problem
description is not sufficient for an immediate problem resolution, then you'll
be asked to create an issue in the github issue system at
https://github.com/simh/simh/issues.

- Mark