From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 8 8: 0:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from vuurwerk.nl (envy.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56F1337B60B for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 08:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petervd@vuurwerk.nl) Received: (qmail 57357 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 15:00:42 -0000 Received: from kesteren.vuurwerk.nl (HELO vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.59) by envy.vuurwerk.nl with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 15:00:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 16299 invoked by uid 11109); 8 Jul 2000 15:00:42 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:00:42 +0200 From: Peter van Dijk To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Pal VMS Message-ID: <20000708170042.E16030@vuurwerk.nl> References: <20000707161109.L15683@beastie.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000707161109.L15683@beastie.localdomain>; from boshea@ricochet.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:11:09PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:11:09PM -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote: > Wait a minute guys, this might be a valid (although not very > clearly stated) FreeBSD question. After a little digging around, > it looks like PALcode is firmware on the DEC Alpha (for which > there are versions of VMS, as well as FreeBSD). To be exact, there are globally two versions of Alpha firmware - ARC and SRM. One is for booting NT (the Linux loader MILO works with it too, and those are the only two IIRC), the other is for booting VMS and OSF/1 (Digital Unix). You need the second one (which is SRM if I recall correctly, I keep mixing them up) for FreeBSD/OpenBSD and friends too. So, his question is quite valid - he needs the VMS firmware to run FreeBSD on his alpha. Greetz, Peter. -- petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:ircoper] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message