Re: G5 powermacs

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:52:14 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> 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).

macppc should probably do that too.

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

All Apple OF versions can read iso9660, in theory at least. There are
some weirdo versions which screw up though, Performa 6360 for example,
and that one can't even netboot ( ethernet is optional, OF sees the
bastardized PCI slot as nothing special and doesn't support even
Apple's own card in there )

Also, I didn't say the G5's ethernet doesn't work - I said I don't
remember.

Finally, I just noticed that I never committed the kernel config for
PCIe G5s we used back then. Just fixed that...

have fun
Michael