From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 3 17:59:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03859152FC for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA14969; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA73706; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:24 -0500 (EST) To: Lord Isildur Cc: Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14408.29267.776501.133049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lord Isildur writes: > > I consider SRM to be the way to go, and i think instead the convoluted > hacks that things like MILO had to go through are the rsult of using the > ARC/ALphaBIOS _instead_ of using SRM. Now that Compaq has released SRMs > for so many more models and eliminated the need to buy the developer kit, > i see no reason to consider ARC anymore _at all_. It was a cheap second The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because they don't run BSD. And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios only & to support linux. (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site. It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message