From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 16 09:59:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05309 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05301 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA32272; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:58:57 GMT Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:58:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: ben@rosengart.com cc: Oliver Graemer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd for alpha? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Oliver Graemer wrote: > > > - When will FreeBSD available for the Alpha architecture (spec. > > Universal Desktop Box)? > > FreeBSD runs on Alphas now. I don't know about the specific machine in > question, but check the web pages at http://www.freebsd.org, there > should be a compatibility list there somewhere. FreeBSD works just fine on the UDB. We don't yet support some of its devices (tga, floppy, pccard). There are possibilities of tga support in the fairly near future and someone promised to work on the floppy driver. I don't expect anyone to tackle pccard anytime soon though. -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message