From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 15 7:51:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB27437BBD3 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13Oi3X-0005XV-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:51:07 +0000 To: Marc Bigler , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org From: wkb@freebie.demon.nl Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Alpha DEC2000 Model 300 (JENSEN) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:51:07 GMT X-Sender: postmaster@freebie.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 193.243.161.101 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi ! > > I would like to know how I can find out if FreeBSD is > compatible on an > Alpha machine (DEC2000 Model 300) from Digital ? > > Or does maybe anyone know if it does ? I had a look at > the HARDWARE.TXT > for FreeBSD 4.1 (Alpha version) and didn't find it > referenced in. Correct, Jensen is not supported in FreeBSD/alpha at this point in time. > Is this machine to old ? That is not the reason, it is more that nobody of the developers has ever dived into Jensen. It is definitely a 'special'piece of hardware that needs quite some specific code support. The NetBSD folks, specifically Jason Thorpe, is working to get Jensen supported in NetBSD. When this succeeds we might see a port of the necessary support code to FreeBSD/alpha sometime. Wilko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message