From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 2 10:17:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02505 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02494 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA08928; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806021702.KAA08928@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug Rabson Cc: Curt Sampson , Terry Lambert , mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 10:02:15 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:03:21 +0100 (BST) Doug Rabson wrote: > 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. Note, the publicly available MILO PALcode _is not_ the one that most MILO images use. The public MILO source is based on the EBDSK PALcode, which happens to not work very well. There are bugs in the TLB management code, etc. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 428 6939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message