On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Mark Martinec wrote: > > i dont understand how the idle parts work, anybody have any documentation? > > why cant we just do it like the how i did it below. aside from the > > side effect that the system clock of guest os loooses track, it seems > > to work ok. From what i can see from the code idle only works for VAX > > and few others, not PDP11 > > It doesn't even work for VAX on reasonably fresh hw, it says: > sim> set cpu idle > Command not allowed > when host's clock resolution as stored to sim_idle_rate_ms > by sim_timer_init() is below 1 ms, and the simh treats it > as an error condition (using simh-3.8.1).
Have you tried with the vax-idle patch on sourceforge? Works well for me. Peter _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
