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