Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:59:56 +0100 From: "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <20001208175956.A6118@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A9C@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:34:15AM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A9C@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:34:15AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > I can't resist dripping a little oil on the fire. I'll be accepting flames > for that in the next ten minutes. You bet.. > > > Who has an Alpha that can recognize their controller in > > > AlphaBIOS or ARC, but not in SRM? > > > > Next to everybody: Adaptec 29xx come to mind. > > > Ok, how about a wrapper around SRM, delegating all the do-thing-quickly > tasks to the real and untarnisched SRM, but adding hooks for the more > mundane task of getting the first few blocks off a controller that SRM > pretends isn't there. My vision: don't we have enough problems with getting the alpha port working on the various alphas? I mean, do we really need extra complexities that might be triggered by hardware that has not been tested with SRM and needs weird hacks? W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.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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