Re: Booting NetBSD/alpha 9.1 on AXPbox

[Chris Pinnock <chris_pinnock%mac.com@localhost>]

Brilliant - thanks for writing it up.
C

> On 27 Aug 2021, at 13:59, Remy van Elst <relst%relst.nl@localhost> wrote:
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> Hey Chris,
> 
> Your mailing list post from earlier this year made me check out NetBSD on AXPbox, after I did the QEMU article. It seems to work quite well,
> however some crashes occur when using networking, graphics or > 512 MB ram. Here is my article:
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> https://raymii.org/s/articles/NetBSD_Alpha_AXPbox.html
> 
> It includes all the crashes I found with output, which will hopefully be helpful when debugging them.
> 
> I also updated the AXPbox wiki (https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox/wiki/NetBSD-9.2-install-guide) - but in a more tutorial style way than my post.
> 
> 
> The funny thing is that QEMU horribly fails openssl benchmarks (see my qemu guide, I've updated that with benchmarks, https://raymii.org/s/articles/NetBSD_on_QEMU_Alpha.html) but with sysbench, axpbox seems to be two to three times slower than AXPbox. Summarized below are the AXPbox results:
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>    CPU: total number of events: 19
>    Memory: 447.07 MB transferred (7.45 MB/sec)
>    Disk: Operations performed:  0 Read, 37353 Write, 0 Other = 37353 Total
>    Read 0b  Written 583.64Mb  Total transferred 583.64Mb  (9.7263Mb/sec)
>      622.48 Requests/sec executed
> 
> These are the QEMU results, running on the same host machine and the same NetBSD version:
> 
>    CPU: total number of events: 532
>    Memory: 1228.18 MB transferred (20.47 MB/sec)
>    Disk: Operations performed:  0 Read, 131072 Write, 8 Other = 131080     Total
>     Read 0b  Written 2Gb  Total transferred 2Gb  (34.332Mb/sec)
>     2197.25 Requests/sec executed
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> I'm really excited about all these new developments in Alpha emulation land. Fun to play around with and hopefully Jason has some time to make (the QEMU/netbsd side) even better.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Remy
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