Re: G5 powermacs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 02:44:20PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Adding in NFS and CD9660 gets me to
> 
> mt: {93} ls -l           /u/build/HEAD/obj/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWEAK_G5/netbsd
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 he  wheel  3435112 Jun  5 14:40 /u/build/HEAD/obj/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWEAK_G5/netbsd*
> mt: {94} size !$
> size /u/build/HEAD/obj/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWEAK_G5/netbsd
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 3008271   44884  124060 3177215  307aff /u/build/HEAD/obj/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/TWEAK_G5/netbsd
> mt: {95}
> 
> which is 3.05MB text+data, so if I can use a cd9660 file system as the
> root file system that might be a workable path to pursue.

That one is easy (x86, vax, sparc64 do it).

Making that ISO image bootable on macppc might be more tricky, but you can
always netboot the kernel and use root on cd9660.

Martin