From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 5 8: 7:56 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 925EF14D7F for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15009; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:15:11 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:15:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Lord Isildur , Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-Reply-To: <14408.29267.776501.133049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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 Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Lord Isildur writes: > > > > I consider SRM to be the way to go, and i think instead the convoluted > > hacks that things like MILO had to go through are the rsult of using the > > ARC/ALphaBIOS _instead_ of using SRM. Now that Compaq has released SRMs > > for so many more models and eliminated the need to buy the developer kit, > > i see no reason to consider ARC anymore _at all_. It was a cheap second > > The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that > nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't > trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because > they don't run BSD. > > And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios > only & to support linux. > (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) > I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it > anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site. > > It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. The UP2000 seems to be very similar to 264DP (?) but UP1000 has a new AMD chipset. I have no documentation for it at all. -- 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