Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:47:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970515154142.408n-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> In-Reply-To: <E0wS8mH-0001Pj-00@rover.village.org>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > The key here is that we can generally load in our own PALs (ala milo) > and then it won't be an issue. No. You'll just have a heck of a lot of different PALcode versions to write. From looking at the source to MILO, it appears that they have at least six different versions of the PALcode for different machines, and a MILO compiled with any particular version will only work on matching machines, nothing else. Whereas, if you use the OSF1 PALcode, you have to go to the effort of duplicating PALcode only on those machines that don't support OSF1 PALcode at all, rather than all new Alpha machines. 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.'
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