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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:38:50 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alpha Install 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808280834260.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <16567.904263803@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > The first thing to do is to build a FreeBSD kernel and test boot it.
> > There are patches to current sources for this available at:
> > 
> > 	http://www.freeebsd.org/~dfr/alpha-sys-diff-270898.gz
> 
> Have you fixed the double-declarations in ioconf.c yet?  I've built
> the world from the most -current current sources on the alpha and
> used these exact patches, but the resulting GENERIC kernel doesn't
> quite build - it needs hand editing.
> 
> Just curious.

I have never seen this.  Can you send me the ioconf.c which your config
spits out and I will try to work out what is going on.

> 
> Also, why don't we just commit these various diffs so they don't need
> to be hand-applied? :)

I'm committing things when I can.  The kernel diffs are down to just a few
device drivers.  I can't test these drivers on i386 though so I am
slightly wary of committing them.

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