Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:03:03 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: More Alpha hardware list updates Message-ID: <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:16:17PM -0800 References: <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:16:17PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > architecture's hardware list should only contain hardware that's > explicitly supported for that platform; no entry should exist "by > default". (Many of the NICs, SCSI controllers, etc. listed in the Great! > Alpha hardware list were left over from its i386 origins.) Right, and that tended to give people heartburn. > Source material for these changes were wilko's Alpha notes, the -alpha > mailing list archives, and alpha kernel configurations I could find. I > did a quick sanity check by building a (embryonic) ia64 hardware list. > > It's a little long for the mailing lists, so I've put a proposed diff, > plus PDF and HTML renderings at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/alpha/ The html rendering complains docboot.css ain't there but I looked at the diff > Comments appreciated. If there's no major problems, I should be able to > get all of these (and related changes) MFC-ed in time for 4.5-RELEASE. - Do you want to make a note about Alpha bootability, or a reference that one should also consult the rest of the Alpha docs? I think that is recommended. - Is + <para arch="i386,alpha">3ware Escalade ATA RAID really tested on alpha? - This one + <para arch="i386">AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ</para> is most likely working on alpha as well. AST4 contains 4 plain 16[45]50 UARTs - This works on alpha too: + <para arch="i386">ESS <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>ES1868, ES1869, ES1879 and ES1888 (&man.sbc.4; driver)</para> @@ -2068,8 +2070,8 @@ </listitem> - Builtin USB works on some of the Alphas. Dunno how to write that down in a sensible way. Hth, Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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