From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 9 12:01:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29114 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29107 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12254; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:00:17 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com.demon.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: herring.nlsystems.com: dfr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:00:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson X-Sender: dfr@localhost To: Christian Weisgerber cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC In-Reply-To: <79fo6s$48v$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Feb 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Don wrote: > > > FreeBSD does not yet support booting from AlphaBIOS. > > The FreeBSD Alpha team is working on a solution for this problem > > Is it? Everything I've seen mentioned here so far has been very > tentative. I'm in the process of acquiring an Alpha. However, that's > going to be a Samsung 164UX board, so I'll initially be forced to run > Linux. Whom should I contact, if I ever decide that it might be within > my abilities to contribute something? Yes it is. The current status is that we can build a version of the FreeBSD kernel loader which runs under ARC and can load kernels from UFS filesystems. Thats the easy part. Next will be setting up the kernel's runtime environment (palcode, HWRPB) and attempting to actually run a kernel. Unfortunately, we haven't had much success so far in running anything at all on the Samsung 164UX. So far, not even linload.exe will run on Stefan's board which doesn't seem right :-(. I'll make an announcement here when there is something worth announcing :-). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message