From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 18 12:24:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01567 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01559 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA11397; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:25:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:24:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Viren R. Shah" cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will it run on ... In-Reply-To: <199811181546.KAA24398@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote: > > The machine is currently running Linux/alpha. since no one is using it > currently I could borrow it, if the FreeBSD/alpha port runs on it. > Here's the dmesg from linux: > > [...] > > Is this enough information to tell whether FreeBSD/Alpha would run on > this? That's not quite enough. I need to know what kind of alpha it is (AlphaStation 200, 400, 500 etc, Multia, PC164 etc). There is a good chance that we support it since we run on most non-AlphaServer machines. The main problem for your machine is that TGA isn't supported yet so you would probably be limited to a serial console. You will probably also need to switch from the AlphaBIOS firmware which Linux normally uses to the SRM firmware which is all we currently support. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message