From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 8 13:32:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13529 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13523 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00452; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810082037.NAA00452@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Seifert cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SRM/ARC/AlphaBIOS/MILO In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:46:58 PDT." <199810081546.IAA12163@eng4.sequent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:37:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The MILO approach is more appealing than using ARC/AlphaBIOS, > assuming its problems can be fixed. (e.g. add a reset command) Warner's references last night actually include a very comprehensive interface definition for ARC. We can probably work with this. > Another thing to keep in mind is that ARC/AlphaBIOS only machines > will have the NT version of PALcode. Linux has their own PALcode, > based on the DU version. We appear to have our own too. Shouldn't be a real problem, I hope. -- \\ 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