From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 8 12:04:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17265 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17230 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:03:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA23219 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:03:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA63505; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:02:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:02:18 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console In-Reply-To: References: <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13974.25363.167762.913345@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Murray Stokely writes: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote: > % > 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. > > Thats bogus because of the large number of DEC systems such as XL's > and SX boards that ONLY ship with AlphaBIOS and can not under any > circumstances be upgraded to SRM. Right now owners of any of the > lower end Alpha workstations from the last few years are completely > alienated with FreeBSD. And this is going to become a much bigger issue once all the 164lx boards sell out, as vendors are claiming they will. Samsung's 164lx replacement, the 164ux, apparently works only with AlphaBios. From what I've read, DEC's new low-end 164RX board will lack SRM support as well. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message