Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:37:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARC/AlphaBIOS (164UX boards) .. was: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901221335420.59627-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19990122061911.A4290@cold.org>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 12:43:58PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > Stefan Esser is working on AlphaBIOS booting at the moment but it is very > > early days. We are still at the stage of reverse-engineering the M$ > > executable format... > > I guess what I am not understanding is why this level of work needs to > be done? Cannot MILO be altered to also work with FreeBSD? I can see > many advantages in sharing sourcecode for this matter, even though it > is from 'the other camp' so to speak... Milo requires the Linux kernel sources to build. I would also prefer a non-gpl solution to the bootstrap. -- 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
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