From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 8 9:31:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 09:31:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D174437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:31:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB8HVSP26785 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:31:28 -0600 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:31:28 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Eldridge To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) In-Reply-To: <20001208175956.A6118@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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