From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 16:20:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7542F16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:20:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDF343D1F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:20:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBFGKoZJ032462; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBFGKnaH032461; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:20:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: ticso@cicely.de Message-ID: <20041215162049.GC31842@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041210202803.GI90137@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20041210211612.GA90601@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20041210220114.GQ63234@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041210220114.GQ63234@cicely12.cicely.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-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 cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, no-go with booting FreeBSD-5.3 on AlphaServer ES40 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:20:55 -0000 On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:01:15PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > I have an implementation that should work for ES40 as well, but > unfortunately there are some bugs I hadn't time to find yet. > I thought about splitting it up and start commiting a few structural > changes soon so FreeBSD at least knows it's limitations and can > automatically reduce physical memory until the implementation is > working. Go Bernd, go! :-) It would be great to get your work committed in some form. Since Alpha is now Tier-2; you could commit it even in an ugly #ifdef form where you might could get more testers, etc... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)