Re: Anybody running NetBSD/cats on bare metal?

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost> wrote:
> > I assume at least some of these are due to differences in gcc 9 vs gcc
> > 10 (or perhaps our local patches), but before I dig further:  has
> > anybody on the list run NetBSD 10.0 or a current after June 19, 2021 on
> > their cats, i.e., on actual hardware?  I'd just first like to rule out
> > an emulation bug or some lack of support in gxemul.
> 
> Have just tried booting -current on a real cats, it didn't even load the
> data segment of the kernel.
> 
> Mine still has the original firmware so needs an a.out kernel, maybe
> something has broken in objcopy.

Thanks for giving this a try.

FWIW, a.out also works in gxemul.  I assume gxemul is a bit more
liberal in what it accepts (e.g., can deal with larger data segments
or so).  Not exactly surprising.


  Harold