Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:57:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Floris 'Tamama' van Gog <floris@vangog.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2 hardware rev 1, how to get to SRM? Message-ID: <3C0EFAA6.97B2F57F@mindspring.com> References: <008301c17de4$c0019830$9600000a@tamama> <20011206003138.C8067@freebie.xs4all.nl> <00b301c17de6$fc63bef0$9600000a@tamama> <20011206005121.A8381@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > <para>NoNames can either have SRM <emphasis>or</emphasis> ARC console > firmware in their Flash ROM. The Flash ROM is not big enough to > hold both ARC and SRM at the same time and allow software > selection of alternate console code. But you only need SRM > anyway.</para> I was going to say this. The first Alpha I played with FreeBSD porting on (belonged to a Linux guy at the University of Arizona in Tucson) was a 21064 based board that had the same limitation. > In short: you need to flash the console code to SRM, ARC & SRM > won't fit together. After you did that you can install FreeBSD. > > This info & more is on the FreeBSD Alpha CD, I think it is in > the rootdir of the CD (*.TXT ??) Is there any chance we can get the publically available SRM images with flashing instructions onto the FreeBSD Alpha CDROM itself? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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