From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 2 00:02:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01693 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 00:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01659 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 00:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA03987; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Curt Sampson cc: Terry Lambert , mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Freely distributable source of OSF > > palcode for several platforms is available. > > Excellent! Where does one get this? And why isn't it on the EBDSK > or in the Linux source (both of which contain something that pretty > closely resembles OSF PALcode, but not closely enough that it would > run DU or NetBSD)? Which parts of the PALcode in the Linux source are incompatible? I think Jason said that it was just the handling of the logout area. I don't think I will have any real problem using this code for FreeBSD. The main problem for NetBSD with milo would be with the HWRPB, I think. Milo only provides an extremely rough sketch of this. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message