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# Bringing up the Kernel
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Add notes on what you've tried w.r.t bringing up the kernel
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## wkt Sun Mar 13 12:26:06 AEST 2016
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We can make at the top level to assemble the kernel, some utilities
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and build the filesystem with the utilities, dd and system directories.
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In the build directory, make run starts Simh running, loads the
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kernel into memory and sets the PC to 0100.
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I'm sure that Phil has got further than this, but by setting a
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breakpoint at 01000 (set br 1000) and doiing a c(ontinue), we see:
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```
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simh> show cpu history
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...
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003351 1 000072 000000 JMP 3361
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003361 1 000072 000000 LAC 4257
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003362 1 000454 000000 JMP I 3272
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004544 1 000454 000000 JMP 10000
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```
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which is the end of coldboot in s8.s. The first few instructions
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are definitely from init.s. By breaking at 001115 (fork from a.lst),
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we can see two forks, which correspond to the two in init.s.
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We do get to the 010052: 020005 sys write; m1; m1s
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code in init to write "\nlogin:" on the terminal, but this
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isn't being displayed.
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We make it to 01363, the first instruction in wttyo, so the
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write syscall is hitting the right device. We do get into
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dsprestart at 03516, and we do make it to the dpcf instruction
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at 03527, but we don't get past here. We don't make it down
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to the sma instruction at 03531 or the ksf instruction at
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03537,
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