From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 23 15:47:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3920214CA9 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA15216; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199904232249.IAA15216@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: EBSDK In-Reply-To: <33412.924905918@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 23, 1999 3:18:38 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:29 +1000 (EST) Cc: rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > EBSDK? I'm afraid I don't know the term - is this a fancier name for > ARC, or are we talking about ARC and AlphaBIOS in the same breath in > paragragh 1? I only know of 3 BIOS alternatives, that being > ARC/AlphaBIOS and SRM, and since we already support SRM that basically > leaves the other two (one? I'm not sure if ARC is deprecated) as > targets. This is especially painful in light of the Samsung decision > to go with AlphaBIOS on its newer boards. > > If EBSDK would indeed be of some help here, do you have a part number? > I dread just cold-calling 1-800-Digital and navigating the PBX maze > without a map. :) The EBSDK (Evaluation Board Software Development Kit) was available from the OEM sales group in the old Digital. It was intended as an example implementation that designers could use as a starting point for a new board design. Looking in an old OEM catalog (dated 1994), the part number for the EB64+ design kit was 21A02-11. The description for this part number is... "EB64+ DECchip 61064 (275 MHz) PCI Design Kit (contains only documentation and schematics, no board) for OSF/1 and Windows NT." The list of features contains... "Software support includes industry-standard 512 Kbyte UVPROM containing debug monitor code. Source code listing for all software (including SROM, boot diagnostic ROM montitor) are provided. The monitor provides functions such as file load; read and write memory and registers; memory dump image; transfer control to program; and breakpoints." and further down... "Development code can be developed on a host system and loaded into the EB64+ through the serail line or Ethernet port". There should be a later product like this. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message