From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 8 11:04:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08683 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08677 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03121; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:03:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:03:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Robert Huff cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console In-Reply-To: <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net> 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, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have > > to consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. > > Last I heard this had been considered and rejected, based on: > > 1) the lack of difficulty in obtaining a SRM-using board, or > installing it afterward. > 2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice. > #2 is the wrong answer. By the same argument, I'd say that 99.5% of the intel based PC motherboards out there are wrong (crappiest engineering since the Pinto) and should just vanish, and I'm going to hold my breath until they do. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message