From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 13: 8: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AA337C11B; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09601; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:07:59 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:08:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) In-Reply-To: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> 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 Thu, 20 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. Does it support the 810 (not the 810a)? > > 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. Huh? I've found de and dc to be satisfactory. > 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. With fxp && some working tulip chip driver in place, we should focus on other issues, IMO. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message