Re: AIX driver DMA

2006-07-05 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN tdell
Dennis; Right forum but this listserver is geared to Mainframe programmers. The last place I saw any information was in the AIX "How write device driver". I thought that this was on AIX 3.2 specific machine. Subsequent releases of the manuals were not availble at the time was doing work in that are

Re: Newbie Questions!

2006-07-18 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN tdell
All of the threads here where right on target, and should serve you well if you follow them as prescribed. I have found that there is no definitive source on the architecture. It is really a vast landscape , I actually read the hardware manual supplied with the 3031 CPU's,, they had a lot of instr

Re: Linux - Our Saving Grace?

2006-07-19 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN tdell
I could bet the farm that's ECLipz , is code name for hardware emulation at the micro/milli code level. The new architecture could be framed like the CELL expecting one or more 390 CPU's married to a network of CELL processors , which in turn is supported by several other RISC processors to

Re: Newbie Questions!

2006-07-19 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN tdell
To reap what I have sowed. Most programmers have confidence, which is not to be confused with arrogance, which has no place in a craft like this. This is a practiced craft, so I haven't met anybody , with the exception of the Scientist's at Palo Alto , who could call themselves above their craft (

Re: VTAM buffer trace

2006-08-02 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN tdell
Check the SMIT panels on AIX , there is a fairly comprehensive set of traces under Comm Server for AIX. It should be able to tell you what's going on. Also you can check the Topology database on AIX to see if has information on the routing that's going on. Alternatively you can trace the connecti