From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 4 1:16: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DD515360 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 01:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id JAA04243; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:46:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA55993; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:56:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199912040856.JAA55993@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199912032321.SAA17064@ghost.whirlpool.com> from Andrew Gillham at "Dec 3, 1999 6:21:21 pm" To: gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com (Andrew Gillham) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:56:34 +0100 (CET) Cc: isildur@guild.net, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Andrew Gillham wrote ... > Lord Isildur writes: > > > [...] > > > > certainly, if anyone _needs_ to use BSD with MILO for some strange reason, > > it'd be better to modify MILO than BSD. Wasn't there a problem with the PALcode that ARC brings you? (memory is dim here..) > Ok, stupid question.. Is it possible to build a 'boot' for NetBSD that > can be loaded by MILO, and have this boot then load the kernel? Rather > than hacking MILO to load the kernel directly, or hacking the kernel to > be loadable directly? After all, isn't 'boot' responsible for reading in > the kernel, and starting it? The differences between SRM devices and MILO > devices should be hidden from the kernel. > > For the average Joe, using the ARC/AlphaBIOS menus to setup booting Linux > and/or BSD, etc isn't so bad. Also, the ARC console can boot from some > NCR controllers that the SRM can't, etc. Hmm, I wonder if the ARC firmware Most/some ARC's (??) can also handle an Adaptec 2940[UW] card. > supports additional video cards also? On some machines yes. For example my Miata accepts video cards while in ARC that it does not (unless you pci_device_override) in SRM. Which makes me wonder why the Pyxis bug is not relevant to NT BTW. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message