From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 5 10:17:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles543.castles.com [208.214.165.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9BC153C8 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08217; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912051819.KAA08217@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:29:35 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 10:19:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go > > > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms > > > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more > > > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that > > > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very > > > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on > > > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not > > > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet. > > > > If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd > > love to hear it. They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO > > code for their systems. > > Nope, but I can't speak for their choices or business model. Do they have > a machine that is an absolute *must have* for *BSD? The UP1000 and UP2000 motherboards are single and dual EV6 Tsunami boards. They're what you'll find in almost all of the non-Compaq-labelled sysems, since API are the only Alpha bare board supplier in the marketplace. I would consider both of these boards "must haves" at some stage, yes, or we will end up in the situation where we only run on a subset of the Compaq-branded Alpha systems, and none of the clones. IMO, that'd be bad. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message