1.3 KiB
Known differences between w11a and KB11-C (11/70)
MMU traps not suppressed when MMU register accessed
The 11/70 does not execute an MMU trap and doesn't set A or W bits in PDR
when an MMU register is accessed, thus MMR0 to MMR3 and any of the
PDR and PAR registers.
This causes test 061 of ekbee1 to fail.
The w11 doesn't implement this trap suppression (neither does SimH or e11).
Since MMU traps are a 11/70,11/45 only feature no OS uses them. Given that, this is considered an acceptable deviation from 11/70 behavior.
Note: the decision whether to request a trap or to update the A and W bits
must be done in the clock cycle in which the MMU translates the virtual
address into a physical address. The w11 determines only in the following
clock cycle whether the physical address is a UNIBUS address and starts an
ibus transaction, and the UNIBUS address decoder decision is available in
the respective IBSEL registers in the next following cycle. With this
structure, it is not possible to use the available UNIBUS address decoding
information during the MMU decision whether to request a trap or not.
Implementing the 11/70 behavior would require a separate MMU register
detection, which would increase the logic depth at a point that is already
quite long.