From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 13 3:13:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B8837B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 03:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251CC43E77 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 03:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gADBDIbY007081; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:13:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gADBDIKG007080; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:13:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:13:18 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Wartan Hachaturow , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any TODO out there? Message-ID: <20021113121318.A7034@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20021113085124.GA23125@mojo.tepkom.ru> <3DD22648.35D7B3DE@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3DD22648.35D7B3DE@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:15:36AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:15:36AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > > I did recently acquired an alpha machine (164LX), and now > > looking forward in helping FreeBSD's Alpha port. > > Is there any TODO list available for this port? Any things that > > need to be done? > > There are some really hard ones; I'm sure someone else will give > a different list with the easy ones on it. Here are two of the > really hard ones: > > (1) > > How much RAM do you have? > > FreeBSD Alpha doesn't work on >2G because some drivers need to > use the bus space functions to make sure all DMAs occur in the > window accessible to the various busses. For an small overview: > > cd /usr/src/sys/alpha > find . -type f | xargs fgrep 2G > > There are other things that could be done, as well, but this one > needs someone with a system with enough RAM and who cares, to work > on it. > > (2) > > If you are a real massochist, you could work on making FreeBSD Make that Real Masochist(TM) as it is a nasty job. > work with firmware other than SRM (that's a *lot* of work, > though). People occasionally complain that FreeBSD won't boot > on NT-only Alpha machines. Given that this mostly is for XL and XLT machines which are EV4 and EV5 (slow EV5) based I would not consider it worthwhile unless you have too much time :) -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message