Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:25:28 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <20001209102528.A5733@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:53:58PM %2B0000 References: <20001208231455.A1245@freebie.demon.nl> <200012082253.PAA26976@usr01.primenet.com>
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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
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