From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 18 10:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from hex.ex.muffin.org (hex.camelot.de [195.30.227.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE9737B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wist@localhost) by hex.ex.muffin.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA18951; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:17:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wist) From: Henrik Wist Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:17:58 +0100 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: sec@42.org Subject: Re: AlphaXL FAQ Message-ID: <20001118191758.A18652@hex.ex.muffin.org> References: <20001117232306.A50269@hex.ex.muffin.org> <20001117162122.A27462@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=17pEHd4RhPHOinZp; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <20001117162122.A27462@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:21:22PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Nov 17, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:23:06PM +0100, Henrik Wist wrote: > > I'm the proud(?) owner of an Alpha XL/366 with AlphaBios since today. >=20 > I thought 300MHz was the fastest. Sure it isn't a 266MHz? Yep, it's to be exact an Alpha XLT/366, forgot the codename. > > is there _any_ way (like switching from AlphaBios to SRM or whatever) > > to get this box to run with FreeBSD (or NetBSD for that matter). I'm > > even willing to hack some code, if that would help. Any > > pointers/flames/hints appreciated, with best regards, >=20 > There is a WIP in /sys/boot/arc/ to allow us to boot and run on > AlphaBIOS. So you'd need to jump in and hack on that to finish it. Haven't looked at it (all 3.x boxes here), but how much work do you think it would be? Is it feasible anyway to do it in the copious spare time? Thanks for your answer, Henrik --=20 wist@ex.MuFFiN.Org // IRC: |GOOSE| // wist@informatik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------- "Weisst, das mit der Ungeduld beim ersten mal ircen ist wie beim Sex. Wer da nur gehetzt 'rumklickt' und schon nach wenigen Sekunden sein Erfolgserlebn= is haben will... " Michael 'Eumel' Neumayer =20 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i iQCVAwUBOhbH1u35cyKSlwZlAQGVPwQA0LTIkbT8cHp77KBkKaR7dP+DFE9xgRn/ vRVZpmeVkcck6pQQKabBQQQ0k2mdyjbZO04Y7lR52o26EGHXCzLoUFldcXPzzllB 7FoqNlKh/U02ml1aTQoGgcyQGGe/88jyJgOyD4PN9n+LNGS0AyyKzx4cib8ccDME Y5wkx+ipUdM= =K/PB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message