Re: MOP boot files

[Antonio Carlini via cctalk]

On 31/10/2020 16:58, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote:

I was wondering if anyone had links to hand for any other good sources
of MOP files?

Thanks

David


Wikipedia lists a bunch of terminal servers: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECserver. Some of the firmware files were 
on the distribution CDs, so it should be easy enough to find those, but 
you'll need the hardware for that to be useful.


The DECnis booted via MOP. Various Alpha systems could boot their 
firmware updates via MOP (and the firmware files were available on DEC's 
FTP, so there should be no problem with someone giving you a copy). I 
think some of the later uVAX 3100 series (and maybe VS 4000-9x series) 
could MOP boot a firmware update.



Again, for all of these possibilities, if you don't have the hardware, I 
don't imagine you can properly test things. I guess you can at least see 
whether the software *thinks* it understands the image format.



Antonio


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MOP boot files

[David Brownlee via cctalk]

I've been helping dreamlayers with his cleanup of the NetBSD/Linux
mopd, ( https://github.com/dreamlayers/netbsd-mopd ) and we were
looking at how it handled different a.out MOP files, specifically
where the files may be little endian

For non MID zero files its easy enough, but little endian MID 0 files
are potentially more complicated.
https://github.com/abs0/netbsd-mopd/commit/6ab8555817f3dff23c506464d302d1a40bca6214#r43682334

It can netboot Ultrix and the vast panoply of NetBSD MOP boot files in
the various a.out and ELF incarnations http://mop.absd.org/netbsd/
(those that are not broken that is :/ )

I was wondering if anyone had links to hand for any other good sources
of MOP files?

Thanks

David