Re: Indigo R3000, Indigo R4000 and Indy R5000

Dear Naruaki,

On 1/6/19 20:48, Naruaki.Etomi wrote:
> Dear Frank
> 
> Happy New Year.

A happy New Year for you, too! Hope to see more cool porting and 
development this year! :-D

> Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

Don't worry, we only have so much time for everything. :-)

> 
>> testing newly purchased machines for example, highlight: an
>> AlphaServer ES45 :-)
> 
> Wow, I'm jealous!
> Was NetBSD successfully Installed?

No, actually not, I'm a little afraid to say on this list ;-), but it's 
running Debian GNU/Linux (from Debian Ports) solely up until now. But I 
should also try NetBSD of course. Though I hadn't much success with a 
DS20E and 7.1 more than a year ago...

>> 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.,)

I see, so the combination is the problem. And the "original" irisboot 
was just small enough so things could work.

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,
Frank