Re: G5 powermacs

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

On 04/06/2017 16:20, Michael wrote:
> - kernels had to be loaded directly, without ofwboot.xcf, at least for
>   netbooting. There's a size limit imposed by OF which seems to be
>   about 4MB, bigger kernels will randomly crash or not load at all
>   IIRC. G5s don't have BARs, I'm not sure ofwboot knows that.

putting the latest netbsd kernel (uncompressed) and running
boot first-boot/@0:3,\netbsd
loads the kernel and fails with

load-size=a3d1cc adler32=f645da8a
Loading ELF

CLAIM failed
 ok