Re: NetBSD on SGI Indigo w/R3000

On 10/23/2017 12:04 AM, Steve Rumble wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 02:59:52PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>
>> Can someone confirm that such a machine or a similar IP12 machine works or
>> worked with an official NetBSD kernel from a specific NetBSD version?
> 
> I'm not sure that anyone has used a release on IP12. In fact,
> you're only the second person other than me who I know to have
> tried NetBSD on this machine.

Wow! :D

> 
> That ancient 1.6 kernel you dug up won't work very well. At the
> very least it had some significant bugs in the seeq ethernet
> driver.

I see, so using the machine diskless with an NFS root might not work 
well anyhow, even if used with the matching userland.

> 
> It's possible that the release kernels are just too big and
> are colliding with the prom's segments.

That's interesting, I didn't anticipate the considerable difference in size.

  I know that I ran into
> this with an IP6 in the NetBSD-4 days. Back when I was fiddling
> with IP12s I usually built small kernels just to cut down on
> compile times, so perhaps I just got lucky.
> 
> I'll try building a smaller kernel from -current and mail it
> to you to try out.

That would be great, thank you in advance.

Cheers,
Frank