From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 3 22:07:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31ADA16A400 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:07:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca) Received: from smtp.athabascau.ca (smtp.athabascau.ca [131.232.10.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D0B13C4B8 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.local.athabascau.ca by local.athabascau.ca (PMDF V6.2-1x12 #31241) id <0JKM0H801GGY0E@local.athabascau.ca> for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:17:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from audba.admin.athabascau.ca ([131.232.4.21]) by local.athabascau.ca (PMDF V6.2-1x12 #31241) with ESMTP id <0JKM0FN4TGGZWF@local.athabascau.ca>; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:17:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from local.admin.athabascau.ca by local.admin.athabascau.ca (PMDF V6.3-x3 #31462) id <01MIIRERL8DW0000FB@local.admin.athabascau.ca>; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:17:22 -0700 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:17:22 -0700 From: Richard Loken In-reply-to: <468A728D.7424.211C39E@lausts.acm.org> Sender: richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca To: Thomas Laus Message-id: X-Envelope-from: richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Please-Resend: yes Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 LCD X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:07:25 -0000 On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Thomas Laus wrote: > to perform an update and custom kernel build from source. I was previously > running FreeBSD 4.11 which went EOL recently. A buildworld would take me > about 30 hours with the debug symbols. Maybe there is a place for a FreeBSD Alpha luddites group who could help each other out. I, for instance, am running FreeBSD on a PC164 which has the jam to make world in a reasonable amount of time so I could build a kernel and send it your way as long as we negotiated the appropriate config. Come to that, I don't mind spending 30 hours at the task because I don't have to sit around and watch. OTOH, just as you said, there are NetBSD and OpenBSD and they are a lot more attractive to me than Linux. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richardlo@admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston