Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Chris Casey <chriss@phys.ksu.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XP1000/Linux/things Message-ID: <14820.33068.713938.530183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1001011092957.25980B-100000@schottky.phys.ksu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1001011092957.25980B-100000@schottky.phys.ksu.edu>
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Chris Casey writes: <..> > Whats the word on linux compat for the alpha. I have 3 of these XP1000 Look through the alpha mailing list archives. My patchset (http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gallatin/linux-alpha.diff.gz) and tarball (http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gallatin/linux-alpha.tar.gz) should be sufficient to the get Compaq compilers working for you. I'm hoping to get Linux/alpha support working in a more official way sometime in the next few months. There's a few more things on my plate before I get to that though.. > with a crufty old redhat install on them that are in need of > repartitioning and new OS. The main issue is with this compaq fortran > compiler for linux. I remember people reporting some success with patches, > but I could not find a "Yep, it works, have fun" announcement. Has there > been any hinting at a fbsd version of this compiler from the Compaq > people? Not that I know about. It would be really nice though ;) > Also... We are seeing these machines lock up with the current > redhat/metroX setup where the screen will freeze, even through a reboot, > and wont respond again till the power is removed. Anoyone seen this happen > with fbsd? It gets really old, and hopefully this will help me get away > from redhat. XF86 4.0.1 is pretty stable on irongate & tsunami based machines. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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