From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 6 13:25:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA22981 for alpha-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA22976 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:25:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU) Received: from hurricane.cs.duke.edu (hurricane.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.1]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14529; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:25:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by hurricane.cs.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id QAA17480; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:25:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:25:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801062125.QAA17480@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-Reply-To: <19067.884086103@time.cdrom.com> References: <19067.884086103@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We've been doing most of our systems research on Digital UNIX, but are slowly moving towards FreeBSD on Intel platforms. We're very interested in the possibility of an alpha port because we'd like to abandon Digital UNIX at some point (the licensing fees are killing us), but their hardware is still very attractive. Unfortunately, like so many others, we cannot make any serious manpower commitment at this time. Much of that manpower is currently tied up in porting our work from Digital UNIX to FreeBSD. But once that's done.. Also, I was wondering -- how's the 'vision thing' going? Have any of the basic design issues been resolved? It seems to me that the most "straightforward" way to get the ball rolling would be to do whatever it takes to fold-in the NetBSD/alpha machine-dependent portion of the kernel. Along with the NetBSD/alpha toolchain, bootloader, etc. Cheers, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590