GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 12:57:00 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:

I played a bit with it, so I can answer these questions myself:

> Most specific questions:
> 
>   - What is the largest HDD SIMH supports? There seems to be RA92
>     support, but that's only 1.5GB.  With today's software, I guess
>     the build requirements (checked-out trees of the software incl.
>     SCM metadata, ...) are way above that :)
> 
>     What's the best way to get a "real" amount of storage into NetBSD
>     on SIMH? NFS-mounting something from outside?

SIMH allows arbitrarily sized disks. Don't use "set rq0 ra92", but
"set rq0 rauser=20000" to get about 20GB.

>   - The NetBSD SIMH HOWTO
>     (http://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html) refers to
>     load the ka655.bin eprom image, but upstream SIMH "only" contains
>     the hacked version (ka655x.bin), which supports more RAM. Is it
>     okay to assume NetBSD will accept this hacked ROM and give me as
>     much RAM inside the instance as possible with it?

Seems this will work with NetBSD. Maximum amount of RAM can be get
with "set cpu 512m".

MfG, JBG

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