From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 17 16:21:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCBB37B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02899; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAI0LNl27502; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:21:22 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Henrik Wist Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaXL FAQ Message-ID: <20001117162122.A27462@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org References: <20001117232306.A50269@hex.ex.muffin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001117232306.A50269@hex.ex.muffin.org>; from wist@ex.MuFFiN.Org on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:23:06PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:23:06PM +0100, Henrik Wist wrote: > I'm the proud(?) owner of an Alpha XL/366 with AlphaBios since today. I thought 300MHz was the fastest. Sure it isn't a 266MHz? > a) I need a SRM to run FreeBSD/Alpha. > b) There is no SRM for the XL. All true. > is there _any_ way (like switching from AlphaBios to SRM or whatever) > to get this box to run with FreeBSD (or NetBSD for that matter). I'm > even willing to hack some code, if that would help. Any > pointers/flames/hints appreciated, with best regards, There is a WIP in /sys/boot/arc/ to allow us to boot and run on AlphaBIOS. So you'd need to jump in and hack on that to finish it. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message