Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:10:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: cjs@portal.ca, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaBIOS documentation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980601200744.330R-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199806011819.LAA02732@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Falling back to SRM really sucks in most cases. For some motherboards you > > can't have both SRM and AlphaBIOS loaded at the same time so switching > > between NT and BSD would not be a good end user experience. > > > Switching from FreeBSD to NT is *never* a good end user experience. > > 8-) 8-). Much as I agree with you, I think this is what some people will wish to do. > > I don't want SRM and I don't want to run DU. I just want the palcode. > > Palcode != SRM. > > The product manager insists on charging for the OSF PALcode. Perhaps > he is a mole for Microsoft. This is not quite correct. There is a charge for the SRM console (which contains a copy of the OSF palcode). Freely distributable source of OSF palcode for several platforms is available. > > One thing to consider is that some Alpha processors are now physically > incapable of having the OSF PALcode loaded on them. >From what I understand, they are just untested in 64bit addressing modes. Personally, I think this is short term brain damage which will disappear when NT supports 64bit addressing. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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