From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 8 10:42:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eniwetok.ihack.net (r94aag002979.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.183.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EFA15784 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mycroft@ihack.net) Received: (from mycroft@localhost) by eniwetok.ihack.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09314; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 03:44:03 -0500 (EST) To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Lord Isildur , Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) References: <14408.29267.776501.133049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> From: root@ihack.net (Charles M. Hannum) Date: 08 Dec 1999 03:43:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: Andrew Gallatin's message of "Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:24 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin writes: > The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that > nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't > trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because > they don't run BSD. According to Jim Paradis, SRM exists for all boards produced by Digital. It's what Digital/Compaq uses to test the boards in-house. They simply didn't release it for some models, due to the flarghing NT licensing crap. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message