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To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU>,
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. 
In-reply-to: Message from Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> 
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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 21:50:04 -0700
From: "Reginald S. Perry" <reggie@aa.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