Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:50:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912060450.UAA00903@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Dec 1999 17:27:41 PST." <199912060127.RAA02782@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:57:19 -0800 > Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > It sounds like the UP1000 may be based on the AMD 751 chipset. I'm not > > too impressed with these in the K7 application yet (they seem to have > > overheating problems), so it will be interesting to see how they go with > > the Alpha. If that's the part they're using, there'll be almost no work > > involved in making the UP1000 work. > > ...except, of course, for the PALcode issue. Well, that's their problem, not ours. However, let's clarify things here. Alpha Processor Inc. have a number of products, and there appears to be some confusion here. UP2000 AlphaBIOS only UP1000 AlphaBIOS only 264DP AlphaBIOS and SRM 164LX AlphaBIOS and SRM 164UX AlphaBIOS only This is based on their website; their FTP server doesn't want to let me in for whatever reason. Based on this, my original comments about the UP2000 stand; there appears to be no OSF PALcode (since there's no SRM), and thus we face the originally-described set of challenges in running on it. -- \\ 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
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