From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 21 02:24:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07722 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07703 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03826; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:24:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:24:46 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: Thomas Valentino Crimi , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E2? In-Reply-To: <199808210625.QAA08897@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > > > > > > Has NetBSD's TGA-E2 support also been added into the new FreeBSD Alpha > > kernel? If so is the install procedure still NetBSD->FreeBSD or has a > > totally native install been devised? > > Not yet. It's a manual install of native bits for the time being. Having > NetBSD won't help other that to let you replace the contents with FreeBSD. > Some of bits you might want are at http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/ We don't support any TGA cards which don't have VGA support at the moment. It would still be possible to boot on a machine with a non-VGA card but you would be stuck with the PROM console. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message