From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 13 11: 3:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3B437B428; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBDJ33Y81217; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:03:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:03:03 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: More Alpha hardware list updates Message-ID: <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:16:17PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 + 3ware Escalade ATA RAID really tested on alpha? - This one + AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ is most likely working on alpha as well. AST4 contains 4 plain 16[45]50 UARTs - This works on alpha too: + ESS ES1868, ES1869, ES1879 and ES1888 (&man.sbc.4; driver) @@ -2068,8 +2070,8 @@ - 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