Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 21:50:04 -0700 From: "Reginald S. Perry" <reggie@aa.net> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705160450.VAA16191@miles.aa.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> of "Thu, 15 May 1997 15:02:24 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.93.970515145649.408k-100000@gnostic.cynic.net>
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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:
Curt> 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...
Curt> I'm not entirely up on the services the various flavours of
Curt> PALcode provide, but I'm extremely dubious that it would be
Curt> easy, or even possible, to have a single kernel work with
Curt> more than one flavour of PALcode. Looking at the instruction
Curt> sets they provide it's obvious that they are very different.
Curt> Also, I understand that the PALcode in MILO is not idential
Curt> to the PALcode in the SRM console firmware.
Another possibility is to write PAL code optimized for FreeBSD. :-)
-Reggie
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