From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 15 08:37:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24160 for alpha-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 08:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24155 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 08:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hurricane.cs.duke.edu (hurricane.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.1]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01992; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by hurricane.cs.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id LAA01984; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:37:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:37:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199705151537.LAA01984@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. In-Reply-To: <18384.863657345@time.cdrom.com> References: <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <18384.863657345@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > provided by a future Milo-like FreeBSD console program). The SRM > > console is available for every machine I can think of with the > > exception of the XL series personal workstations. For most machines, > > the SRM console is freely available from > > ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware. For EB* motherboards, > > one can order the "Alpha EBSDK and Firmware Update Kit" from Digital > > Just to note that the "Alpha PC" designs which people like Aspen > Systems ship (http://www.aspsys.com) come only with the ARC console > unless you're willing to pay $175 more for SRM. This is not made > freely available anywhere - I looked into that thoroughly before > writing out the check. :-) Actually, most of these "Alpha PC" type systems (including Aspen's Durrango & all Enorex's systems) are just re-packaged DEC AlphaPC164 or EB164 motherboards. Firmware for which is included in the above-mentioned Alpha EBSDK. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590