From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 8 11:09:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09354 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from soho.london.virgin.net (soho.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09347 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from kirk.london.virgin.net (kirk.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.227]) by soho.london.virgin.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22238; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:08:40 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by kirk.london.virgin.net (8.9.1b+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05552; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:08:38 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.london.virgin.net: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:08:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: Murray Stokely cc: Robert Huff , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console In-Reply-To: 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 I've seen documentation (NetBSD site?) than mentions SRM support for 164SX boards... which is why I tried to install DEC's latest firmware for this board... any ideas? Scot. On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote: > % > 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. > > Thats bogus because of the large number of DEC systems such as XL's > and SX boards that ONLY ship with AlphaBIOS and can not under any > circumstances be upgraded to SRM. Right now owners of any of the > lower end Alpha workstations from the last few years are completely > alienated with FreeBSD. > > % 2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice. > > Ugly hack as it may be, MILO works very well for Linux. SRM users > in the Linux camp actually seem very few and far between. > > Murray Stokely > > > 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