From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 18 14:04:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07185 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:04:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles251.castles.com [208.214.165.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07180 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02955; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812182202.OAA02955@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrew Gallatin cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot kern.flp wedges -- now what? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:09:05 EST." <13946.35442.260953.650982@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:02:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Also, FreeBSD does not yet support IDE devices > > > > You're talking about FreeBSD-alpha, right? FreeBSD-intel does IDE just > > fine. What's the story with IDE on alpha? > > Last I checked, isa devices requiring DMA didn't work yet, and the > new, pci-only driver wasn't yet done. (at least I though somebody was > working on one...) I'd be happy to be wrong about that ;-) This took a hit when Soren's system and his backup tapes were stolen. I'm not sure how much momentum we've lost, but I'd say quite a lot. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message