From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 18 2:38:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3358F37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:38:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13x5OQ-000Hgo-00; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:38:46 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAHMfGF06821; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:41:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:41:16 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Henrik Wist Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaXL FAQ Message-ID: <20001117234116.A6168@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001117232306.A50269@hex.ex.muffin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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: > Hi, > I'm the proud(?) owner of an Alpha XL/366 with AlphaBios since today. To make > a long story short, I searched the web and came to the following conclusion: > > a) I need a SRM to run FreeBSD/Alpha. > b) There is no SRM for the XL. Correct on both counts. > Even though I'm pretty sure that a) and b) both are 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 Unless you you make FreeBSD run with ARC/AlphaBIOS and the crippled NT PALcode you are stuck.. :-( -- 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