From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 22 2:20:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C6910F39 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 02:19:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA57800; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:18:54 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:18:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Joonas Tizihssane Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader for the samsung 164UX boards In-Reply-To: <36D116EF.8015B15C@w-arts.com> 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 Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Joonas Tizihssane wrote: > wondering what might be the estimated time for the release of this > loader, cos i am an owner of one of these samsung UX motherboards and i > can say that i ain't that fond in using linux on it, i got freebsd on a > 486 and at work so to get freebsd to that machine would be great. > thanx in advance Progress on this board has stalled waiting for information from Digital and Samsung. The firmware on the board (written by DeskStation apparently) is gratuitously different from DEC's AlphaBIOS firmware and we are not sure of the differences as yet. Even linux requires a custom version of their loader for this board apparently. -- 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