Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:37:10 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <199901082337.PAA00929@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:54:20 EST." <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net>
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> > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > 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. > 2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice. I don't know where you heard this; it's certainly not the case that we would abandon the goal of supporting ARC systems, and I don't think it was ever seriously considered that we would not try to support them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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