Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:44:29 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org> Cc: imp@village.org, grog@lemis.com, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha RELNOTES.TXT Message-ID: <20000905194429.B1377@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000905173102.2860437B43F@hub.freebsd.org>; from wpaul@freebsd.org on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:31:02AM -0700 References: <20000905192425.A1189@freebie.demon.nl> <20000905173102.2860437B43F@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:31:02AM -0700, Bill Paul wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:42:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <20000905153145.A639@freebie.demon.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: > > > : Hm, partly maybe. For example all the EISA boards are a no-no on Alpha > > > : altogether. PCMCIA cards same story. I'd rather go for a 'yes, this > > > : works' than a 'anybodys guess' type of document. > > > > > > pcmcia could be made to work on alpha w/o a huge amount of hassle, but > > > NEWCARD should make that easier. One should remove them from the > > > supported list of hardware on the alpha until someone undertakes that > > > hassle. > > > > Thing is there is only one Alpha that I know of that has PCMCIA slots. And > > that is the venerable Multia. And maybe the 'Alphabook' but I never saw one. > > There exist such things as ISA to PCMCIA and PCI to PCMCIA bus adapter > cards. If you buy an ISA or PCI WaveLAN/IEEE card, what you're really > getting is one of these bus adapters with a PCMCIA WaveLAN/IEEE module. > So if you're worried about testing PCMCIA with alpha hardware, don't be. :) Me? Worry? Naa ;-) Question remains, given the relatively small alpha-user population, when this will ever be tested/debugged etc -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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