Hi,
it has been reported here before that some MSCP controllers, the CMD
CQD-220/223 in particular, aren't detected when booting from a disk
attached to them. They are detected just fine when netbooting,
however.
So this is almost certainly caused by their firmware getting
confusedin
one way or another. When booting from disk, the boot ROM and/or our
boot
loader have already initialized them, and now the uda(4) driver comes
along and udamatch() writes 0 into IP and expects to see a controller
init step1 in SA happening within 10s as the spec requires.
For some reason I don't fully understand yet this was working fine in
4.0 and broke some time afterwards, possibly due to the big VAX code
rototilling that was done in 2008. A friend of mine was suffering from
this on his VAX 4000/200 (KA660), preventing him from upgrading from
3.1.1. to 10.1.
By playing around with the registers and introducing long delays I was
able to get the controller to initialize after 12s or more, most of
the
time at least. However, a much simpler and more reliable fix that
doesn't incur long wait times just adds a I/O bus reset in
uba_attach()
by calling sc->uh_ubainit.
On the small QBus VAXen, this results in a mtpr(0, PR_IUR) to reset
the
QBus. The KA660 manual states clearly that this doesn't affect the
onboard devices (SGEC and SHAC), and I'm reasonably confident that
this
works the same on all models with onboard devices coming after the
KA640.
I'm a bit more concerned about the older and bigger Unibus systems,
the
11/7xx and 86x0, most of which can have multiple Unibus adapters. For
the 11/78x and 86x0, dw780_init() looks like it would take care of
only
initializing the particular Unibus adapter it is called for, so this
should work. But dw730_init() and dw750_init() just do a mtpr(0,
PR_IUR),
so they might actually reset all Unibusses on these systems? Does
anyone
know?
So, please take a look at the attached patch. I think this is the
right
thing to do, but I'm not sure. Another way to do this would be to add
this to the model specific CPU initialisation code. Any opinions?
Hans