Re: Anybody running NetBSD/cats on bare metal?

On 18/10/2024 13:56, Robert Swindells wrote:
>
> Harold Gutch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I assume at least some of these are due to differences in gcc 9 vs gcc
>> 10 (or perhaps our local patches), but before I dig further:  has
>> anybody on the list run NetBSD 10.0 or a current after June 19, 2021 on
>> their cats, i.e., on actual hardware?  I'd just first like to rule out
>> an emulation bug or some lack of support in gxemul.
>
> Have just tried booting -current on a real cats, it didn't even load the
> data segment of the kernel.
>
> Mine still has the original firmware so needs an a.out kernel, maybe
> something has broken in objcopy. >

More likely that GENERIC got too fat again and you hit the firmware size
limit. Try trimming down the kernel, please.

Thanks,
Nick