From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 8 9: 0:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 09:00:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78BF37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 144Qsb-00013O-00; Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:00:18 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eB8Gxu507150; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:59:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:59:56 +0100 From: "'Wilko Bulte'" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <20001208175956.A6118@freebie.demon.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A9C@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A9C@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:34:15AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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