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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:55:01 -0800
From:      bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFR: More Alpha hardware list updates 
Message-ID:  <200112131955.fBDJt1S39049@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl> 
References:  <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org> <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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If memory serves me right, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:16:17PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> > Alpha hardware list were left over from its i386 origins.)
> 
> Right, and that tended to give people heartburn.

I guess I inherited that when I took this job.  :-)

> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/alpha/
> 
> The html rendering complains docboot.css ain't there but I looked at
> the diff

Oops...fixed.

> > 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.

Well...when someone reads the hardware notes for the Alpha, they'll see 
your Alpha-specific section first, then this file.  So I'd say we're 
probably already covered, right?

> - Is 
>   
> +    <para arch="i386,alpha">3ware Escalade ATA RAID 
> 
>   really tested on alpha?

Urk.  Come to think of it, probably not (or at least it didn't turn up 
on the mailing lists).  Don't know how that got there.

> - 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

OK, I can fix that.

> - 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>

Ditto.

> - Builtin USB works on some of the Alphas. Dunno how to write that
>   down in a sensible way.

OK, I will think about that a bit.

Thanks for the help!

Bruce.





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