From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 3 20: 4:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA42714F98 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA29782; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:01:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912040401.UAA29782@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Lord Isildur , Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 20:01:44 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:24 -0500 (EST) Andrew Gallatin wrote: > 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. ...well, the XLs are slow, too :-) They're roughly equivalent to the AlphaStation 400; there's *some* chance that a 400 SRM might run on them. (Backup your ARC image and locate the failsafe jumper first, though :-) > 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. ...and the Ruffian board (164UX is what Samsung called it). > It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. No kidding. However, if you then start willy-nilly porting SRM to these currently non-SRM platforms, you have an interesting problem; who gives out systype numbers? -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message