From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 9 1:41:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 01:41:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CC137B404; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 01:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 144gVQ-0007Xj-00; Sat, 09 Dec 2000 09:41:24 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eB99PSa05771; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:25:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:25:28 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Smith , Mike Eldridge , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <20001209102528.A5733@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001208231455.A1245@freebie.demon.nl> <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:53:58PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:53:58PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > The most useful thing I see coming out of this is that people > > > > with Adaptec Controllers get paid to do the loader work on the > > > > AlphaBIOS, and the loader is known to work. > > > > > > Why? Why not just push Compaq to bring back the already-extant SRM > > > support for Adaptec controllers into their other SRM families? > > > > A waste of time to try this. Especially for all non-current hardware. > > That was my take, too, particularly since Linux appears to > have already worked around the problem. I think the only make that: kludged around. It is not ARC versus SRM perse, but also the VMS/OSF1 PAL code that is in the SRM. How would you get the OSF1 PAL code into an ARC-booting system? You'd have to write your own.. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message