From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 13:29:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18596 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA18588 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA31565 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:07:52 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id UAA01212; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:09:12 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199902011909.UAA01212@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Alpha-2100 server support In-Reply-To: <199902011833.KAA19753@george.lbl.gov> from "jin@george.lbl.gov" at "Feb 1, 99 10:33:24 am" To: jin@george.lbl.gov Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:09:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As jin@george.lbl.gov wrote... > I tried to install FreeBSD SNAP on our Alpha-2100 server, but got panic > on installation: > > FreeBSD does not yet support system type 9 (ST_DEC_2100_A500) > > I'd like to know if this type machine will be supported in the future? If someone writes the machine specific bits to it (or ports them from netbsd/axp if they already support the 2100) > Is there anything we can do to help supporting this type machines? Take a look at NetBSD and find out if there is already support for the 2100. If there is, take a close look and start porting ;-) You will need a machine that is already supported by FreeBSD/axp to compile stuff for you. I went through this exercise a couple of months ago with my Aspen Alpine/EB64+ and it was not extremely difficult (NetBSD/axp was a great help, as where a couple of people on the freebsd-alpha mailing list. Hi Doug, Hi Drew ;-)) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message