From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 4 17:25:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles545.castles.com [208.214.165.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B767A153A2; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05619; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912050126.RAA05619@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Reilly , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:16:27 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:26:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet. If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd love to hear it. They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO code for their systems. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message