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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 95 12:15:55 GMT
From:      dev@flevel.demon.co.uk
To:        bruce!peter@osix.osix.oz.au
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, gruner@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, osix!rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD MCA Support?
Message-ID:  <20d293f9.1d4c0-dev@flevel.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4jX7NkUQ0k00A7_R0O@bruce.osix.oz.au> (from Peter May <bruce!peter@osix.osix.oz.au>) (at Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:55:12 %2B1000 (WET))

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Hi Peter,

> > > BTW - If you need a beta-tester for a MCA version of FreeBSD I would be
> > > happy to do some testing.
> 
> Yes Please. Armin is currently Alpha testing what we hope to submit to
> -core shortly as support for basic Microchannel. It supports ESDI disk
> only, no SCSI as yet, and has been tested on both an IBM ThinkPad 700C
> (which is a microchannel laptop) and a PS/2 mod 70.
> 
> It's probably time that we sent out a call for testers for the MCA stuff
> - we really have only a limited number of machines to deal with here
> (I'm in Australia, Armin is somewhere in Europe) and while it gets
> production style use at both places it would be good to have some level
> of confidence.
> 
> If interested parties would like to send me E-Mail addresses, I will
> start a list here for Alpha testing before the 2.1 integration gets into

Did anything ever come of this. I haven't heard a thing in about 2 months??

I would really like to get a PS2 version of FreeBSD running.

Thanks,

Trefor S.

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