Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:02:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970515145649.408k-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> In-Reply-To: <E0wRrY8-0000CN-00@rover.village.org>
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > I think that most of the features needed by the FreeBSD kernel when > running will likely be very minimal and easily translated between the > various flavors of PALs... I'm not entirely up on the services the various flavours of PALcode provide, but I'm extremely dubious that it would be easy, or even possible, to have a single kernel work with more than one flavour of PALcode. Looking at the instruction sets they provide it's obvious that they are very different. Also, I understand that the PALcode in MILO is not idential to the PALcode in the SRM console firmware. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. `And malt does more than Milton can Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 To justify God's ways to man.'
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