From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 24 10:51:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21F237B401; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9OHp5Z17229; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200110241751.f9OHp5Z17229@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: Alpha hardware notes From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_2058411746P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:51:05 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_2058411746P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi alpha folks-- With the recent ia64 progress, I'm trying to figure out how to best support more than two architectures in the release documentation. The biggest headache is going to be the hardware notes...specifically the lists of all the NICs, disk controllers, and other devices. One thing I'd like to do is to figure out what to do with all of the devices for which no explicitly-supported architecture(s) are listed. In other words, does: foobar device (&man.foo.4; driver) really mean: foobar device (&man.foo.4; driver) ("it works on both the i386 and alpha") or does it really mean: foobar device (&man.foo.4; driver) ("it works on the i386, no one's tried it on the alpha")? I'm not sure how to go about doing this, given that the only alpha machine I can even login to is beast. One thing I thought of was to make a pass through the GENERIC kernel configuration on a FreeBSD/alpha machine and mark all drivers mentioned there as being explicitly supported, then taking everything that's left and marking it as i386-only. Clearly this isn't perfect. Any ideas on how I can do this better? Thanks! Bruce. PS. Right now I'm mostly concerned with -CURRENT...4-STABLE will never have more than 2 architectures, so it's less of a problem although anything that's MFC-able, should be. --==_Exmh_2058411746P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE71v+J2MoxcVugUsMRAjAiAKCixPcrJyNXWrcJmvxuVc4gflLKhwCg0xzX d/XSSQ+fx3c/r+SfVmfzTAs= =hO8E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2058411746P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message