Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:55:01 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: More Alpha hardware list updates Message-ID: <200112131955.fBDJt1S39049@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200112130216.fBD2GH123095@bmah.dyndns.org> <20011213200303.A81110@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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--==_Exmh_-1469322312P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:16:17PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Alpha hardware list were left over from its i386 origins.) > > Right, and that tended to give people heartburn. I guess I inherited that when I took this job. :-) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/alpha/ > > The html rendering complains docboot.css ain't there but I looked at > the diff Oops...fixed. > > Comments appreciated. If there's no major problems, I should be able to > > get all of these (and related changes) MFC-ed in time for 4.5-RELEASE. > > - Do you want to make a note about Alpha bootability, or a reference that > one should also consult the rest of the Alpha docs? I think that is > recommended. Well...when someone reads the hardware notes for the Alpha, they'll see your Alpha-specific section first, then this file. So I'd say we're probably already covered, right? > - Is > > + <para arch="i386,alpha">3ware Escalade ATA RAID > > really tested on alpha? Urk. Come to think of it, probably not (or at least it didn't turn up on the mailing lists). Don't know how that got there. > - This one > > + <para arch="i386">AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ</para> > > is most likely working on alpha as well. AST4 contains 4 plain > 16[45]50 UARTs OK, I can fix that. > - This works on alpha too: > > + <para arch="i386">ESS > <itemizedlist> > <listitem> > <para>ES1868, ES1869, ES1879 and ES1888 (&man.sbc.4; > driver)</para> > @@ -2068,8 +2070,8 @@ > </listitem> Ditto. > - Builtin USB works on some of the Alphas. Dunno how to write that > down in a sensible way. OK, I will think about that a bit. Thanks for the help! Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1469322312P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD4DBQE8GQeU2MoxcVugUsMRAsYGAJwO+yT4a3VZRfYj9DuVFXslvl2rkQCYjSbA eoO3HObtHlmiFa3jvxlTSg== =uatE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1469322312P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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