Re: Indigo R3000, Indigo R4000 and Indy R5000

Dear Frank

Happy New Year.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

>testing newly purchased machines for example, highlight: an
>AlphaServer ES45 :-)

Wow, I'm jealous!
Was NetBSD successfully Installed?

>BTW, with `dksc(0,1,8)irisboot` in the variable `bootfile` it also works
>to just boot with `boot dksc(0,1,0)/netbsd`:

That's a great idea!

>This is from an IRIX 5.3 CDROM and it looks like`sash` for IP12 is more
>then 200 KiB in size. But if I interpret the picture in your tweet ([2])
>correctly, the modified `irisboot` is just below 60 KiB in size. Not
>sure what the problem is then, though.

It is correct, however NetBSD kernel is larger than IRIX kernel.

--- IRIX5.3 ---
# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     sys      1883692 Nov  9  1994 unix
# ls -l
sashIP12 249280  bytes

IRIX kernel + sashIP12 = 2132972 bytes

--- NetBSD ---
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3580204 Jan  6 17:33 netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  61248 Jan  2 23:27 irisboot

NetBSD kernel + irisboot = 3641452

Nowadays, modern kernel have to many functions(security, network, etc.,)

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Naruaki Etomi
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