From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 11:28:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677F337B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13lxcZ-000MQw-01; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:07:24 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9IHUBG03705; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:30:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:30:11 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Kris Kirby Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Message-ID: <20001018193011.E1832@freebie.demon.nl> References: <14829.41324.212080.318391@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@catonic.net on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:55:50PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:55:50PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Not really, I was more thinking of the problems people seem to have > > installing 4.1.1. This particular case might be a firmware bug. > > Multias have ancient firmware. At least shutdown -r now reboots every > > alpha I have. And I have lots of different alphas. > > I understand that there is a firmware update out for the Multia (at least > from my version of SRM) but in the interests of Keeping It Working, I've > neglected to apply it. I once found, I forgot where, a rare version of SRM for the Multia that works really well. I will put it up for ftp on ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko for you. My Multia's really seem to like it, FreeBSD does too. > fan. Are there any other issues (like the 74F IC on the bottom that likes > to overheat) that you can think of? > > I'd still like an answer on cross compiling... (please) Marcel had it working before he left .nl for .ca.us He borrowed my NoName to test it. I don't know if it still works with all the changes that went into -current since then -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message