From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 13: 3:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A2537B67E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA67831; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:03:24 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14709.48828.202497.430928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200007191525.IAA77616@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Hmm.. I'd suggest axing the ncr driver (why is it still in GENERIC now > that SYM supports the older devices??). I feel groudier would be a better judge of this than I am. If he agrees, I'll axe it out. > And after that, some of nics which are unlikely to be found in alphas > (rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, vr, wb, xl, le, fxp). Overall I could go this way, but not with the list above. Right now `xl' is the best Alpha NIC we have. With `xl' removed, I wouldn't be able to install on my AS 250 as it is on a 100-mbit only switch via an `xl'. `xl' is the only NIC in my PC164SX box. Since you've fixed `fxp', I think many will use that too -- especially in 164LX, PC164SX, NoName's, etc.. (ie, anything that was mostly sold as only a CPU + mobo combination). If someone wants to bug him, wpaul would probably be a better judge of which of the above list isn't well suited for use in an Alpha. And even then you know someone will try on of the lesser cards. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message