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Subject: Re: Any Update on HP Workstation Support? XW9300
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Quoting Jeff Isaac <cineveggie.lists@gmail.com>:

> Thanks for getting back to me with this link. These HP systems seem to
> be tricky for BSD kernels for whatever reason.

Hi

I've been following this thread for a while. I wonder if I can help solve the
problem. I (probably) have most of the pieces necessary to do some tests:
one HP workstation (an xw9400) affected with the smap problem
one old PC with several OSes on it, including a working installation of FreeBSD
6.2-stable

I don't have any experience in developing FreeBSD kernel code (or, I guess in
this case, the boot loader code).

Does anyone have a potted guide to betting started with cross-compiling the boot
code and building a boot CD (or floppies)?

A+
Paul