Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:10:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: brandon@roguetrader.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARC/AlphaBIOS (164UX boards) .. was: Re: horrible hack / SRM Message-ID: <199901222310.QAA10649@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901221335420.59627-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Jan 22, 99 01:37:10 pm
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> > > 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. Not to mention that Milo replaces the microcode with something other than SRM and other than ARC, etc, and as a result is constantly playing catch-up with new boards. Someone should approach Compaq about SRM, now that DEC is no longer anally trying to keep everything $120 more expensive than running NT for some sill ass reason... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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