From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 25 17:47:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C7137B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05254; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:47:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2Q1lLr66017; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:47:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15038.40872.853207.953809@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:47:20 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael Richards" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader Progress... In-Reply-To: <3ABE7DE5.0000ED.48828@frodo.searchcanada.ca> References: <3ABE7DE5.0000ED.48828@frodo.searchcanada.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Richards writes: > > Does anyone have documentation on how to interface with the alpha > bios to perform low level things such as reading blocks of data? I > would like to verify that calls are being made properly. 'Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, Third Edition' By Sites, Richard L. / Witek, Richard T. I think the calls are correct, but we may be making them in a way that tickles bugs on this platform's SRM console implementation. Eg, we do something which is technically legal, but which no other bootloader does, so it happens not to work. > Finally, assuming that I do get this problem fixed, is there anyone > specifically that I should be sending patches to? I'm sure if you mailed them to this list, all of us comitters on this list would be falling all over each other to commit them. ;-) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message