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Running klh10 on a Raspberry Pi

These notes are historical. Please use the Github repository as a primary source of code and information.

Use the bld/lnxarm directory.

You will want working tun/tap support. Download tuntap.patch (by MMcM) and apply it.

TOPS-20 specifics

Compilation

Cf. MRC's instructions. Edit the file src/Makefile.mk, lines 357-358 (in the base-kl target) to change 

-DKLH10_ITIME_INTRP=1 -DKLH10_CTYIO_INT=1

to 

-DKLH10_ITIME_SYNC=1 -DKLH10_CTYIO_INT=0

(It does not seem to be necessary to make the corresponding change to the base-ks-its target, but I may be confused. See also a post on alt.sys.pdp10.)

Set up the tap interface

Set up the addresses of the tap interface (in your klh10 init file) which will automatically be created by kn10-kl. This makes the TOPS-20 end have the address 192.168.1.129 and the host (Raspberry) end have ..128. 

  devdef ni0 564 ni20 ipaddr=192.168.1.129 tunaddr=192.168.1.128

For external access, you need to set up iptables and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/$IFACE/forwarding to be 1, for $IFACE in {tap0,eth0}.

ITS specifics

I disabled the “host” device (commenting the call to clk_idle in hst_write), which idles the emulator when the ITS scheduler idles. With the host device active, I got terrible interactivity. Possibly you could instead do the corresponding to the TOPS-20 compilation fix?

You might want to install the Chaosnet interface (for fun).

I did have to change my startup script, since at boot time it does take significant time to get a DHCP address for the host system, and kn10-ks (with Chaosnet support) doesn't like to start until there is one.