From owner-freebsd-platforms Wed Sep 10 14:59:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00579 for platforms-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA00568 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA15962 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org); Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:59:48 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA01203 for freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:54:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199709102154.XAA01203@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: FreeBSD on non-PCI based Alpha machines? To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org (FreeBSD non-Intel Platforms) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:54:53 +0200 (MET DST) X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Having just obtained a Jensen Alpha mainboard (the first AlphaPC aka DEC2000/300 aka AXP150) which is EISA based I wonder if the potential port of FreeBSD will support non-PCI AXP boards. There are quite a number of PCI-mixed-with-EISA Alpha machines so there might be some interest. It seems FreeBSD can handle the old 'Bird' machines (Sandpiper, Flamingo) which are all Turbochannel boxes. TC is not too interesting to me of course ;-) The Jensen has the Intel EBC/ISP EISA chipset, on which FreeBSD runs quite happily with a Intel CPU. Standard SCSI controller is a Adaptec 1742A, the video is a Compaq Qvision which at least in text mode works with FreeBSD-Intel. There are some oddities with the Jensen design however, I'll just have to read the 5" stack of docs I got with it. Wilko [ In case you're wondering why I got the Jensen: it was a swap for a laserprinter, a laserprinter that cost me the equivalent of US$ 12 So the price was unbeatable, especially it even came with the odd-ball Compaq Qvision VGA board the Jensen is blessed (ugh) with ] _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda