From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 15 15:03:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19576 for alpha-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnostic.cynic.net (gnostic.cynic.net [198.73.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19554 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by gnostic.cynic.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA14779; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gnostic.cynic.net: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:02:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@gnostic.cynic.net To: Warner Losh cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > I think that most of the features needed by the FreeBSD kernel when > running will likely be very minimal and easily translated between the > various flavors of PALs... I'm not entirely up on the services the various flavours of PALcode provide, but I'm extremely dubious that it would be easy, or even possible, to have a single kernel work with more than one flavour of PALcode. Looking at the instruction sets they provide it's obvious that they are very different. Also, I understand that the PALcode in MILO is not idential to the PALcode in the SRM console firmware. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. `And malt does more than Milton can Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 To justify God's ways to man.'