From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 20 0:21:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AE537B732; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14fHON-000LJw-00; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:21:23 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f2K8Nmd04905; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:23:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:23:48 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Smith , 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> References: <200103192344.f2JNiqg12049@mass.dis.org> <200103200458.VAA22633@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200103200458.VAA22633@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:58:14AM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 : 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