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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:46:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Will it run on ...
Message-ID:  <199811181546.KAA24398@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>

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The machine is currently running Linux/alpha. since no one is using it
currently I could borrow it, if the FreeBSD/alpha port runs on it. 
Here's the dmesg from linux:

Command line: bootdevice=sda1 bootfile=vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda1 
Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.03
Probing PCI hardware.
bios32 WARNING: slot 13, function 0 requests 0x8000000 bytes of contig address  space---don't use sparse memory  accesses on this device!!
bios32.sio_fixup: weird, device 8086:0484 coming in on slot 7 has no irq line!!
Console: TGA driver
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour TGA 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 163.58 BogoMIPS
Memory: 29896k available
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Linux version 2.0.30 (root@spacely.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Nov 11 21:37:39 EST 1997
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected 
ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0x11001000, io_port=0x8800, irq=11
ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.4a
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ26F    (C) DEC  Rev: 1Q0A
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RRD45   (C) DEC   Rev: 1645
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: SLOW SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2050860 [1001 MB] [1.0 GB]
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
tulip.c:v0.83 10/19/97 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Digital DS21040 Tulip at 0x8000, 08 00 2b e7 76 3d, IRQ 15.
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 65408k swap-space (priority -1)
<sc 347(0,0,0)><6>sysctl: ip forwarding off
ICMP: failed checksum from 206.29.49.60!
ICMP: failed checksum from 206.29.49.60!
ICMP: failed checksum from 206.29.49.60!

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Is this enough information to tell whether FreeBSD/Alpha would run on
this? 

Thanks
Viren
-- 
Viren R. Shah {viren @ rstcorp . com} Research Associate, RST Inc.
"I believe every process which shows failure can be improved, 
 and any human process that does not show failures is so broken 
 that failures do not even show up." -- Simon Shapiro (freebsd-current)

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