Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:23:48 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems Message-ID: <20010320092348.C4321@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200103200458.VAA22633@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:58:14AM %2B0000 References: <200103192344.f2JNiqg12049@mass.dis.org> <200103200458.VAA22633@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:58:14AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Why is the AlphaBIOS support still around, if NT isn't? > > > > Because there are obviously paying Compaq customers still running NT. > > > > > Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS? > > > > No. > > > > > It seems that Compaq is either throwing money into continuing > > > support for a useless console monitor, or that FreeBSD needs > > > to switch over to using AlphaBIOS (uck). > > > > Neither. > > OK. Let me rephrase that. FreeBSD needs to switch over to whatever > code supports hardware that is not nearly impossible to buy. Not that discussion again <SIGH>: please read the archives on PAL code issues etc. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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