From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 12 13:08:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29502 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29492 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28709; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:08:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd028650; Mon Oct 12 13:08:28 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21219; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:08:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810122008.NAA21219@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PALcode To: seifert@sequent.com (David Seifert) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:08:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810092325.QAA07824@eng4.sequent.com> from "David Seifert" at Oct 9, 98 04:25:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Isn't this more of a case of us running a UNIX that isn't ARC PALcode > > friendly? > > No. > > The PALcode customises the machine for a particular OS. > That is the whole point of the PALcode. > There is PALcode for Unix, PALcode for VMS, and PALcode for NT. I understand that. I also understand that some PALcode is more equal than others, in terms of coming for free with the hardware. I'm not married to ARC; I'd be just as happy with any other PALcode that spanned the entire product line and didn't cost extra to obtain. Perhaps the VMS PAL code would be a good fit, since VMS requires 4 protection domains, and we seem to run fine on x86, which also provides 4 protection domains. > Similar deal with the console software. > SRM for VMS and Unix, ARC or AlphaBIOS for NT. > > ARC cannot read a BSD disklabel. I'm also not married to BSD disklabels. 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