From owner-freebsd-platforms Sat Dec 20 10:11:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01613 for platforms-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA01605 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA14332 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org); Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:07:01 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id JAA09545; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:22:48 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199712200822.JAA09545@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DEC Alpha XL 366, can it run BSD? To: tom@kednos.com (Tom Linden) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:22:48 +0100 (MET) Cc: matt@3am-software.com, tsprad@metronet.com, port-alpha@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Linden" at Dec 19, 97 07:25:34 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Linden wrote... > I thought some of the XL's also had SRM. My 266 doesn't as the flash is > only 512K. So with the ARC console you have only two options, NT or > Linux. The issue is not how much flash memory you have, but if an SRM console exists at all. E.g. my NoName does not have enough flash to hold both ARC and SRM at the same time. I got mine with ARC inside, and overwrote that with SRM. Most machines, in contrast, have a flash that is big enough to hold the SRM and ARC at the same time. You can switch console modes from the console instead of re-flashing thing. Another interesting question might be if the NT (aka ARC only) boxes can/will run OSF/Unix PALcode. The story seems to be (?) that newer NT-only boxes no longer can do this. If I'm not mistaken this is another reason that NetBSD wants SRM. People will undoubtedly correct the above when I went astray. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ---------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net]BSD Unix ------