From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 7 22:58:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DE537B401; Tue, 7 May 2002 22:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g485wCxq004758; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:58:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g485wC6q004757; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:58:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 07:58:11 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: "David O'Brien" , Mark Santcroos , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *bsd on srm-less alpha's Message-ID: <20020508075811.A4739@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020507143448.GG321@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020507103639.B23330@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020507211046.D2422@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3CD8BADE.D7D0FC8C@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CD8BADE.D7D0FC8C@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:42:54PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:42:54PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:36:39AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:34:48PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > > > > My goal is to first get a kernel running on a modified milo and after that > > > > to create a selfhosted bsd loader. > > > > > > There has been some work on this -- see /sys/boot/arc/ > > > > But be prepared to have a lot of work to do yourself. > > Particularly in the VM system. With different microcode, you PALcode != microcode. > It's possible to write the VM code to deal with this, but it > is going to almost be a platform port (e.g. IMO, the differences > are enough that they are equivalent to those of the PC vs. the > NEC PC-98, or the IA64 vs. the Pentium). IMHO the work needed to make a XL[T] run FreeBSD is just not worth it. But it is an interesting challenge, true. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message