From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 19 10:38:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2555337C02F; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13ExnE-000DLf-00; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:38:01 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01574; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:30:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:30:53 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <20000719193053.D1234@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <14709.48828.202497.430928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200007191525.IAA77616@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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). Speaking of which: when looking at the alpha release notes (RELNOTES.TXT) I see an awful lot of adapters/hardware listed as 'supported' of which I'm pretty sure have never seen the inside of any alpha box. Any reason not to axe those? And I'm not speaking of the fact that the RELNOTES IMO are not the place to list supported hardware.. > 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.. Seconded.. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message