Re: Indigo R3000, Indigo R4000 and Indy R5000

Hello!

Dear Frank,

>Ok, in the end I used another narrow SCSI disk (a ST39216N, the original
>disk is a ST1280N) that just worked.
>
>As I don't have my Indys at hand currently, I followed "Installing
>without sysinst" ([1]) and installed NetBSD (NetBSD-daily/HEAD
>/201808230630Z) on disk from my working diskless NetBSD installation -
>actually two times, as I didn't anticipate that one needs to reserve some
>space at the beginning of the disk for the SGI volume header as
>mentioned on [2]. :-D

I really appreciate everything you have done.
It will take a lot of time to finish "Installing without sysinst".
This is a heavy task.

>[   9.0068690] warning: no /dev/console
I think following is a need.
(I wonder if it was failure )
# cd /target_hdd/dev
# ./MAKEDEV all

>/etc/rc.conf is not configured.  Multiuser boot aborted.
Please rewrite "rc_configured=3DYES"

>The result is working:
I'm so glad.

...apart from the MAC address patch that is not yet included in the ELF
image.

It slipped my mind=EF=BC=81
Try this kerne.
(I think I'm OK)
https://github.com/nullnilaki/NetBSD_irisboot/blob/master/IndigoR3K/re_netb=
sd_elf

>I have not yet managed to configure the NVRAM vars in a way that would
>allow to just issue `boot` in the PROM monitor to boot the installed
>NetBSD. The kernel name and path is not actually hardcoded in
>`irisboot`, right? Because with an adapted default NVRAM config it
>doesn't work to just use `boot` like for IRIX:

That questions was reasonable.
Let me explain about that.

SGI machines are roughly 2 categories.
ARCS machine: Crimson, Indigo R4K, Indy, Indigo2, O2, Octane...
NO ARCS machine: Indigo R3K, Personal IRIS, IRIS Power series...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCS_(computing)

ARC is a standard and open.
I know how to use ARCS routine.

For example:
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/sgimips/stand/common/boot.c#177
Therefore, I recognize OSLoadPartition environment variable.

https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/sgimips/stand/common/boot.c#190
Therefore, I recognize OSLoadFilename environment variable.

On the contrary, NO ARCS machine's PROM(NVRAM) routine is proprietary and c=
lose.
I don=E2=80=99t know how to use NO ARCS machine's PROM(NVRAM) routine.
No one knows it besides SGI.
Disassembling sash binary is very very hard.
(Please remember Indigo R3K MAC address promblem)

As a result, It is necessary to input target disk and kernel name.
I know it sucks, but please give me a break...

>Say, which PR refers to the kernel patch(es) (incl. the MAC address fix fo=
r early Indigo R3K)?
>It would be cool to be able to build that kernel for future NetBSD release=
s.
I hadn't sent Indigo R3000 patch yet.
Give me a sec to explain...
As the reason, My Indigo ran out of battery a few days ago!
https://twitter.com/nullnilaki/status/1031949233857880064

I will send Indigo R3K patch in 2 months at the latest.
I'll contact you later.

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Naruaki Etomi