From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 13 02:28:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA05247 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA05228 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03455 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org); Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:29:05 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA00567 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:12:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199709130912.LAA00567@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: FreeBSD on non-PCI based Alpha machines? To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers list) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:12:13 +0200 (MET DST) X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ reposted on -hackers, -platforms gave no response? ] Having just obtained a Jensen Alpha mainboard (the first AlphaPC aka DEC2000/300 aka AXP150) which is EISA based I wonder if the potential port of FreeBSD will support non-PCI AXP boards. There are quite a number of PCI-mixed-with-EISA Alpha machines so there might be some interest. It seems FreeBSD can handle the old 'Bird' machines (Sandpiper, Flamingo) which are all Turbochannel boxes. TC is not too interesting to me of course ;-) The Jensen has the Intel EBC/ISP EISA chipset, on which FreeBSD runs quite happily with a Intel CPU. Standard SCSI controller is a Adaptec 1742A, the video is a Compaq Qvision which at least in text mode works with FreeBSD-Intel. There are some oddities with the Jensen design however, I'll just have to read the 5" stack of docs I got with it. Wilko [ In case you're wondering why I got the Jensen: it was a swap for a laserprinter, a laserprinter that cost me the equivalent of US$ 12 So the price was unbeatable, especially it even came with the odd-ball Compaq Qvision VGA board the Jensen is blessed (ugh) with ] _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda