From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jun 2 17:24:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13002 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12991 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11165; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: John Birrell cc: jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of slpha port In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 07:03:58 +1000." <199806022103.HAA21330@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 17:24:01 -0700 Message-ID: <11161.896833441@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think you might be referring to the work that Jeffrey Hsu and Terry > Lambert did porting NetBSD/Alpha to the AXPpci33 (a.k.a. noname). This > wasn't FreeBSD - they used the NetBSD/Alpha port done by Chris Demetriou. > The noname work was contributed by Jeffrey back to NetBSD and at least > partly re-written by Chris AFAIK.e Ahhh right, I'd forgotten about that early abortive little attempt. This may indeed be where the original poster was confused. The 4 Alphas which Digital loaned to us many months ago now are a different story, and of those we basically now have 3 on indefinite loan status from DEC. The 4th, a multiprocessor ALPHAserver, never made it through the Australian customs barrier to its intended recipient and was eventually simply returned to Digital. That will be the first and last time I attempt to have any significant piece of hardware sent into that country. :-( In any case, things seem to be going well with the FreeBSD/alpha project and if I can ever figure out why things are still mysteriously falling over for me on my own alpha when building the FreeBSD-current source tree, I'll try a prototype release build at some point. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message