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prosolis 5921fab118 Put the transport on the 68000, and find PIO costs 87 clocks a byte
ROADMAP P4b. src/player/xfer.i answers src/player/ring.i's XF_* mailbox with a
real READ(10) to a real MB89352 in place of tools/bench/stream.lua's modelled
transport: 120 records, 4,488,588 B, pixel-exact out of a 256 KB ring, with a
real mid-stream seek in a second pass. The tiling is the SAME 18 wraps and
14.7 KB mean hole that 49.4's host producer and 55.4's modelled transport
produced -- a third transport, same placement, which is the assertion that
ring.i could not tell which side of the seam answered it.

What it costs is the finding. tools/bench/xfer_cost.sh subtracts the same 120
frames run twice and gets 87.28 clocks per delivered byte, against the 68000's
own cycle table for the loop, which says 87.15 -- 0.2% apart, so the cost is the
instruction stream and not MAME's device model, and it is the first number this
rig has produced that survives leaving the emulator. That is 391.8% of a 12 fps
frame; the machine's own V-DISP clock agrees from the other end at 2.57 fps.
Against the ladder, W=5 held is 22.4% of a frame and W=19 is 85.3%, so P4a is
worth 4.6x the worst DMA configuration in this tree and 17.5x the best -- where
before this session it was worth 9 against 19. W itself did not move by a clock.

"UNDERRUNS: 0/120" is vacuous with a synchronous transport, and stream.lua now
prints that argument next to the zero: a frame cannot start before its record
has landed because the decoder IS the transport. The counter that means
something is NO IDLE, 119/120 with a worst overrun of 441 whole ticks. Same
class of error as 49.7.2's free-running ring passing at 48 KB.

58.3: a record is not a sector -- 117 of 120 start part way into one, and
reading whole sectors into the ring corrupts the neighbours rather than wasting
bytes (49.2, no bounds check). scsi.i reads the covering sectors and stores only
the window, which is free in PIO and stops being free the moment P4a succeeds.
tools/analysis/26_sector_align.py prices the three ways out and sector-aligned
records win on both axes: +0.43% wire and zero clocks, against +1.34% and a
bounce copy at +5 clk/B. ROADMAP now carries a four-item re-encode bundle and
P4a should be attempted against a sector-aligned container.

check.sh gains two stages and was ALL GREEN before and after. decode.bin is
unchanged at 1,296 B and the same MD5.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01194oWYW8DQXK1SZ2DnChW6
2026-08-24 23:15:53 -07:00
prosolis e935d8661c Put the SPC on the 68000, and find P4 was blocked on a file nobody needed
ROADMAP P4, first half. Every byte the player has ever consumed was placed in
emulated RAM by a host: decode.lua preloaded a container, stream.lua answered a
mailbox at a modelled rate. src/player/scsi.i selects a SCSI target on a real
MB89352 and issues READ(10) itself -- 4,096 B from LBA 0 and 2,048 B from LBA
1000, both byte-for-byte against the host's copy of the same volume, with no
IOCS and no host in the transfer path. The non-zero LBA is the half that
matters: a driver that emits a malformed LBA field still passes block 0,
because zero is what a malformed field usually is.

P4 was recorded as blocked in this tree and was not. Session 21's handoff said
MAME's x68000 has no MB89352 path; -exp1 cz6bs1 instantiates one next to the
HD63450, and FINDINGS 32.4 had read that card's DMA glue in session 9. The
session-21 note is a regression in the record, not a discovery. What is
genuinely absent is the 8 KB scsiexrom.bin MAME requires to INSTANTIATE the
card and the player never executes -- driving the SPC registers directly has
been the plan since BENCHMARK item 4 in session 2 -- so scsi_run.sh supplies a
zero-filled placeholder on its own rompath, leaves the user's romset alone, and
lets MAME print WRONG CHECKSUMS as it should. B3 is untouched: it wants that
ROM's bytes disassembled and a blank one has none.

The register map is measured, not inferred, and it corrects MAME's own
documentation. The probe walks $EA0000..$EA003F one address at a time with a
bus-error handler that records the fault and steps the index, because a
sequential dump reports the first hole as the answer -- the earlier version
took a bus error at $EA0006 and knew nothing about the other 57. 60 of 64
answer; the two holes are exactly the TMOD and EXBF the MB89352 omits and the
MB87030 has. MAME leaves HOLES and does not shift the later indices down, which
its own device summary claims it does, and that is what keeps DREG at $EA0015.

The data register is DMA-only here and a PIO write vanishes. x68k_scsiext.cpp
glues $EA0015 and nothing else, and with exown() asserted and DRQ low the byte
is discarded: no error bit, no status change, no interrupt. Quieting all four
DMAC channels does not change it. Measured rather than reasoned about -- write
$5A, read back $00 with the FIFO still empty -- because ten command bytes
vanishing without trace looks exactly like a target refusing a command, which
is how it first presented. So every transfer runs the SPC in DMA mode and the
CPU moves the bytes through the DMAC's own door.

That costs the argument something, and it is easy to overclaim here: with exown
asserted at idle MAME cannot distinguish a CPU-driven byte at $EA0015 from a
DMAC-driven one. This shows the DATA PATH and cannot by itself show that the
HD63450 is driving it, which is precisely what ROADMAP calls P4's first job.
Whether a real CZ-6BS1 also refuses PIO there is not settled; it is a property
of MAME's model and it wants a board.

W did not move by one clock, and could not have. MAME's device models are
functional rather than transfer-timing accurate and 42.5 reads its DMAC
configured in wall-clock attotimes, so this is BENCHMARK Tier 1 -- does the
read path work -- and never Tier 2. W is still the largest open number here.

Five bugs, four of them silent, recorded in 57.5 because the pattern is the
finding: a chain of rol.l #8 that loaded a transfer counter of ZERO from a
count of 10; a byte handed to a FIFO mistaken for a byte on the bus; a fixed
phase sequence where the bus decides the order; the discarded PIO write; and an
initiator that must drop ACK and only then release the bus. The last appeared
only once there were TWO reads -- one passed byte-exact and every conclusion
from it was sound, and the second could not select. A player issues one command
per record, so that failure would have been universal in the ring and invisible
in a one-read demonstration.

No decoder code changed; decode.bin is still 1,296 B at the same MD5. check.sh
gains a SCSI stage that builds the volume out of the same stream_disk.bin the
ring rig reads, gates the register window at 60 of 64 and both reads
byte-exact, and skips when chdman is absent. ALL GREEN before and after.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01194oWYW8DQXK1SZ2DnChW6
2026-08-24 22:53:58 -07:00