From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 11:59:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA18188 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:59:34 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA18181 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:59:28 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA10502; Fri, 24 Mar 95 12:52:53 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503241952.AA10502@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia To: mycroft@ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 12:52:53 MST Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, aledm@relay-europe.ps.net, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503241823.NAA23298@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Charles M. Hannum" at Mar 24, 95 01:23:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is for the DEC AXP150. > > An EISA machine with an Adaptec 1742 controller; there is > supposedly no X support, and a number of other problems. > > Uh, hello? > > 1) As far as I know, neither the machine Aled mentioned, nor the > machine the original port work was done on have an EISA bus. Perhaps > you're thinking of the Linux port. He said "APX" which I took to mean "AXP", since DEC doesn't have an "APX" as far as I know. Sorry to disappoint you, but the Linux port (what I've seen of it) is a pure PCI motherboard port. > 2) If you want to know the state of that port, you should *ask*. And > don't ask me; I don't have much to do with it. I was basing my statements on what I had been *told* after having *asked*. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.