From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 20 6:35:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC7614FEA for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id PAA18745 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:32:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10ZYks-000WyaC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:31:54 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: The Ruffian again.. Date: 20 Apr 1999 13:31:51 +0200 Message-ID: <7fhoj7$dto$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <371B81E7.54002BB0@w-arts.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson wrote: > Getting documentation was the thing which stopped this project. It seems > that the firmware on these board only has a partial similarity with > AlphaBIOS (which is fairly well documented now). Stefan Esser was working > on this. Okay, now that somebody else has brought it up: Just what needs to be done, to get FreeBSD going on a Ruffian? At what point has progress stalled? If I wanted to work on this, where should I jump in, whom should I talk to? I don't recall ever seeing anything by Stefan Esser on this. (Is that the same Stefan Esser who owns the NCR driver?) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message