Re: OpenBSD 3.3 on old KA650 qbus mscp machine???

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:48:45PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> I got the kernel to build.  Interestingly, after stripping out
> anything except the barest bsd mvII and mvIII bits, the
> size of the kernel was still 85% of the generic kernel.
> Am I missing something?  The netbsd kernel strips down

Most of the bloat is machine independant stuff. crypto, inet6,
nfs, various other big things.

> to around 50% or so.  It ran fine, though, although as you
> alluded, it takes a BIG hit on boot and shutdown.  What
> and where do I have to twiddle bits to speed that up?

Search for shutdown in /etc/rc.

> On a KA630 machine, it would be horrible, but, on the
> KA650 machines, it is slow, but still usable, but it does
> probably need some tweaking to speed things up.  Would
> that also speed up logins?  There is a hit there, for about 30

"man login.conf" and set fewer rounds on your blowfish passwords, or
set the cipher to just regular des. These big delays are fallout from
the security versus convenience battle.

> seconds or so dead time until it runs the login scripts.
> 
> The ethernet works nicely.  On NetBSD, it is broken,
> on the qbus ethernet, and has been since the 1.5.x
> days.  But, the OpenBSD bits truck along nicely on
> the delqa.  I would assume that talking to deqna
> cards should probably work, too? (Yes/No?)

I've not tried a deqna, so I can't say for sure.

> 
> Do the mscp bits work correctly on the esdi controllers?
> If they speak mscp, I would expect they should, but has
> anyone actually tried them?  I have a couple of the dilog
> and webster esdi cards that I could bring up in another
> crate if time permits.  The problem there would be booting

Most seem to work, but again this is untested. Reports and dmesgs
to [email protected] are always appreciated.

> would be restricted to netbooting or  tape booting.  Do you
> know if the floppy33.fs works on tape?  I might be able to
> import it onto a spare esdi drive and boot that, but tape
> would be easier.

Not tested.. but it at least has a possibility of working.

/Hugh

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Keys