From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 19 8:37:47 2000 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 7170A37BEB5; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21057; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:37:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA47339; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:37:40 -0400 (EDT) (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: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:37:40 -0400 (EDT) To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) In-Reply-To: <200007191525.IAA77616@pike.osd.bsdi.com> References: <14709.48828.202497.430928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200007191525.IAA77616@pike.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > > I don't know if there are any more recent snaps than the 5/25 which > > are currently available. There should be a 4.1RC for alpha "any day > > now".. > > > > Drew > > David O`Brien is working on the alpha RC snapshots. He has RC1 done, we > are just waiting on Jordan to put it up somewhere that is publically > accesible. *poke* *poke* David is also having fun since we are apparently > out of space on the Alpha boot floppies, so he is trying to trim then down > to size. :( Hmm.. I'd suggest axing the ncr driver (why is it still in GENERIC now that SYM supports the older devices??). And after that, some of nics which are unlikely to be found in alphas (rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, vr, wb, xl, le, fxp). We really need a modules floppy so we can keep the install kernel small & allow people with uncommon hardware to still install over their uncommon devices.. Since we're the only Open Source OS to support some of the Mylex controllers found in AlphaServers, it would be nice to make it easy for people to install onto one.. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message