Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:53:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), diz@cafes.net (Mike Eldridge), freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001208231455.A1245@freebie.demon.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 08, 2000 11:14:55 PM
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> > > The most useful thing I see coming out of this is that people > > > with Adaptec Controllers get paid to do the loader work on the > > > AlphaBIOS, and the loader is known to work. > > > > Why? Why not just push Compaq to bring back the already-extant SRM > > support for Adaptec controllers into their other SRM families? > > A waste of time to try this. Especially for all non-current hardware. That was my take, too, particularly since Linux appears to have already worked around the problem. I think the only chance is to make FreeBSD work with the available images for a given platform, not expect new images. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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