Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:31:28 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012081122300.29249-100000@mail.cafes.net> In-Reply-To: <20001208175956.A6118@freebie.demon.nl>
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, 'Wilko Bulte' wrote: > 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? Weird hacks suck in the grand scheme of things, especially when you need a lot of them, it makes things ugly. :) So what about simply booting from a floppy with the neccessary kernel on it and mounting the root filesystem from there? FreeBSD will recognize the device whether SRM sees it or not, correct? Is this not a feasible option? Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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