From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 8: 7:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DA237B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21329; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9BF7Yf76070; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT) (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: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT) To: Chris Casey Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XP1000/Linux/things In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14820.33068.713938.530183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Casey writes: <..> > Whats the word on linux compat for the alpha. I have 3 of these XP1000 Look through the alpha mailing list archives. My patchset (http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gallatin/linux-alpha.diff.gz) and tarball (http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gallatin/linux-alpha.tar.gz) should be sufficient to the get Compaq compilers working for you. I'm hoping to get Linux/alpha support working in a more official way sometime in the next few months. There's a few more things on my plate before I get to that though.. > with a crufty old redhat install on them that are in need of > repartitioning and new OS. The main issue is with this compaq fortran > compiler for linux. I remember people reporting some success with patches, > but I could not find a "Yep, it works, have fun" announcement. Has there > been any hinting at a fbsd version of this compiler from the Compaq > people? Not that I know about. It would be really nice though ;) > Also... We are seeing these machines lock up with the current > redhat/metroX setup where the screen will freeze, even through a reboot, > and wont respond again till the power is removed. Anoyone seen this happen > with fbsd? It gets really old, and hopefully this will help me get away > from redhat. XF86 4.0.1 is pretty stable on irongate & tsunami based machines. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message