Re: port-sgimips/53378: Unable to Load RAMDISK kernel newer than NetBSD 6.1.5 on Sgi Indy.

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sgimips/53378; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-sgimips-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-sgimips/53378: Unable to Load RAMDISK kernel newer than
 NetBSD 6.1.5 on Sgi Indy.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:27:53 +0100

 Is this a limitation in the boot PROM rather than a NetBSD bootloader
 (the "doesn't fit in a FreeMemory area" doesn't seem familiar from the
 NetBSD source tree)?
 
 A couple of (probably very obvious) thoughts to give more breathing
 room would be to compress the kernel and then prepend code to
 decompress and execute, or have a generic option for any kernel to be
 able to process dhcp options 66/67 to specify a TFTP server and
 filename from which to load the ramdisk...
 
 David