From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 23 03:32:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04634 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 03:32:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d183-205.uoregon.edu (d183-205.uoregon.edu [128.223.183.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA04628 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 03:32:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by d183-205.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) id DAA16062; Sat, 23 May 1998 03:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980523033210.46742@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 03:32:10 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Doug Rabson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kernel status report References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 10:47:04AM +0100 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Rabson scribbled this message on May 23: > The next step is to add device support for the various devices in the > simulator with the aim of getting the system to single user mode. Since > the alpha platform has a significantly more complex bus structure than the > PC, I have decided to use the bus/device framework which I prototyped last > year. Hopefully, this can form the base of a wider driver renovation > project for the PC platform which badly needs it. could you send me a copy of what you prototyped out? I'm interested as I was working on this project... but I haven't had much time to work on getting a 3 stage boot loader up and running for FreeBSD... for what I would like to do with FreeBSD for bus/device support will require the ability to have the boot loader support loading multiple modules before the kernel starts running... and once this happens, we can essecially eliminate main from the kernel, and simply have it use the module loading code to initalize the kernel... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem Rev/FAX: +1 541 346 9237 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message