From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 25 14:03:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23545 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA23536 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:03:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00298; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:57:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602252157.OAA00298@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Alpha port To: john@gateway.net.hk (John Beukema) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:57:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John Beukema" at Feb 25, 96 07:59:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I see Microway advertising its 300Mhz DEC Alpha 21164 motherboard > running DEC Unix and Linux. A while back I remember some talk about > porting FBSD to this platform. What ever became of that effort? Jeffrey Hsu and I were required to send our loaner hardware back. We had a running NetBSD system, and I was abstracting the clock code; it seems that the FreeBSD console code relies on timers that have to be detected. I wanted to blackbox the kernel pieces so that a chip detect could result in multiple devices being exported as a single monolithic unit. I still have my SCSI HD with all the code on it. I sent email asking about purchasing replacement hardware, but didn't get a response from the company. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.