Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:36:57 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Scot Elliott <scot@london.virgin.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901081035450.2496-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9901081832000.6575-100000@kirk.london.virgin.net>
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This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have to consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. Probably we'll have to do something akin to MILO. On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Scot Elliott wrote: > On the same subject, I'd like to run FreeBSD Alpha on a machine with a > 164SX board. It's currently got the NT console installed - and I can't > get firmware updated from DEC to work. The machine just hangs after a > minute or so of accessing the floppy disk for the image. > > Does this mean that I have to get hold of a firwmare chip with the SRM > on it - and if so, does anyone know of any UK suppliers, as even DEC don't > know what I'm talking about when I call them... > > > Thanks. > > Scot. > > > > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As wilko wrote... > > > > > As Aspen Tech support refered me to Aspen Tech sales for a SRM ROM > > > and Aspen Tech sales does not seem to read email I decided to bluntly > > > dump an EB64plus SRM console ROM into the Aspen Alpine board. > > > > > > Surprise: seems to work.. The Alpine does not have an ethernet i/f onboard, > > > the EB64+ does (it seems, I've never seen one in real life) but the SRM > > > does not seem to care too much. Digital Unix collapses with a panic > > > though.. when I try to boot an install CD. > > > > You'd expect I know better after years of hardware hacking but: there was > > a memory jumper set wrong. The board correctly told me it had 64Mb, but it > > was set for a single bank 4x16Mb instead of for a dual bank 2x4x8Mb. > > > > Both Dunix and NetBSD stopped crashing after the board was setup correctly > > 8-) > > > > I plan to port the NetBSD EB64+ specific bits to FreeBSD/axp (hopefully > > soon..) > > > > Wilko > > _ ______________________________________________________________________ > > | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl > > |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl > > ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scot Elliott Mobile: +44 (0)7050 126045 > Work: scot@london.virgin.net +44 (0)171 479 4482 > Play: scot@poptart.org, scot@indiekid.co.uk, s@cx +44 (0)181 896 1019 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Public key available at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html > Fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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