Re: Booting a LP64 kernel on a DS5000/200 (in gxemul 0.6.0)

["Toru Nishimura" <locore64%alkyltechnology.com@localhost>]

Matt Thomas reported;

> I would have used 3maxplus but that's currently broken in gxemul 0.6.0 so fell 
> back to a 3max (even though that only has a r3000) but overrode the CPU to a 
> R4400.  So I think booting a LP64 kernel on my DS5000/240 has a real chance
> of success.

I have a R4000 module for MAXINE (DECstation5000/xx).  I tried 33MHz R3000
MAXINE a while ago and found the machine could boot off stock NetBSD-5.1.
It's known that the machine can run self diagnostic with R4000 module installed.
So, technically it'd be possible for me to try GENERIC64.  The downside is
PROM diagnostic runs unreasonablly slow and brings long pose before
command line is ready to use.

Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology