Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:03:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901081102250.2496-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have > > to consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. > > Last I heard this had been considered and rejected, based on: > > 1) the lack of difficulty in obtaining a SRM-using board, or > installing it afterward. > 2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice. > #2 is the wrong answer. By the same argument, I'd say that 99.5% of the intel based PC motherboards out there are wrong (crappiest engineering since the Pinto) and should just vanish, and I'm going to hold my breath until they do. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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