Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:22:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <20000720222249.A9806@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:03:24PM -0700 References: <14709.48828.202497.430928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200007191525.IAA77616@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <14709.51428.333589.473414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:03:24PM -0700, 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. > > > 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). Wait a sec: did I miss the 'fxp is now OK'? If yes, I better cleanup RELNOTES because it looked like (to me) that fxp on alpha was a bad idea. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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