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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:57:10 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc: Floris 'Tamama' van Gog <floris@vangog.net>,
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Subject: Re: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2 hardware rev 1, how to get to SRM?
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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

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