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Date:      Thu, 08 May 1997 16:53:27 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha questions.. 
Message-ID:  <E0wPc3z-0007G9-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 21:21:00 PDT." <6888.862978860@time.cdrom.com> 
References:  <6888.862978860@time.cdrom.com>  

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In message <6888.862978860@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: Some of it, but there are other problems.  For one thing, the NetBSD
: code requires the SRM console to be installed and everyone now agrees,
: for a variety of reasons, that the ARC console is the one to target.
: This will affect the boot code rather significantly.

And the VM code, since the NetBSD/alpha code and the OpenBSD/alpha
code both use PAL codes from the SRM console to do various interesting
VM things, which would have to be redone as well.  Just to give
another example.

: P.S. And if you don't understand the difference between the SRM and
: ARC consoles, please don't ask - I don't want to explain it and you
: don't want to know. :-)

He's right.  You *REALLY* don't want to know. :-)

Warner



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