From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 23 09:07:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23185 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23160 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA72123; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:03:54 GMT Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:03:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin cc: tls@rek.tjls.com, Terry Lambert , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: ARC/AlphaBIOS (164UX boards) .. was: Re: horrible hack / SRM In-Reply-To: <13993.63269.64554.310942@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Thor Lancelot Simon writes: > > > You're missing the point. SRM, too, requires "constantly playing catch-up > > with new boards". The cheap new boards don't have SRM *because Compaq > > wasn't willing to pay anyone to port it, or their vendors weren't > > willing to license it and then pay someone to port it. > > > > The do-it-yourself SRM kit costs a whopping $75. In fact, it's what > > MILO is (partially) based on. > > > > What's this $75 do-it-yourself SRM kit? Does it actually include SRM > sources?!? What, if any, licensing restrictions are there on > distributing binaries produced from it? It sounds like the EBSDK (which is $75) but I didn't think that included SRM sources. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message