Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 20:02:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jbarbee@singular.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of slpha port Message-ID: <199806022002.NAA03944@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <98060211384501.00278@dhcp136> from "John Barbee" at Jun 2, 98 11:36:37 am
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> i was told that when the loaner went away, the alpha port was > given to netbsd. are there any future plans for freebsd and > alpha or is that project permanently closed? FreeBSD'ers have subsequentlky bought their own hardware. The FreeBSD Alpha port user space is being worked on by John Birrell, who has committ4ed many 64 bit cleanups to the main source tree, as well as /sys/alpha/... files. The kernel port is nearly to the point of being single user on the SimOS Alpha simulator running on top of Linux on Alpha, according the Doug Rabson's recent postings to -current. > we bought an alphastation 200 and are deciding what to run on it. Right now, you should run NetBSD or Linux (or NT, if you don't have the OSF PALcode, and it's not supported by "milo"). If you are talking about the near term future, your best bet would be to contact Doug Rabson and John Birrell directly with your expected time frame. I suspect that a release is at least as far off as the 3.0-release itself. 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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