From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 20 2:42:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB9215375; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA95069; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:44:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:44:48 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Joonas Tizihssane Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Stefan Esser Subject: Re: The Ruffian again.. In-Reply-To: <371B81E7.54002BB0@w-arts.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Joonas Tizihssane wrote: > Hi again, wondering if there has been any advance in the makeing of the > loader for the Ruffian board(s), if no, and the problem is getting info > from samsung, count on it that i will mail them and nag (hope it will > have some effect on them! :) > > I bought a 9.1gig disk that is waiting for freebsd to get installed on > it :) > > I hope that the loader will see the light of day soon.. > > /Joonas... > ps. Thanx in advance and thanx for the great work that is put to the > freebsd-alpha project! .ds Getting documentation was the thing which stopped this project. It seems that the firmware on these board only has a partial similarity with AlphaBIOS (which is fairly well documented now). Stefan Esser was working on this. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message