From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 23 08:27:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17546 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17541 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA04898; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:26:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA31159; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:26:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:26:38 -0500 (EST) To: tls@rek.tjls.com Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: ARC/AlphaBIOS (164UX boards) .. was: Re: horrible hack / SRM In-Reply-To: <19990123015811.A17699@rek.tjls.com> References: <199901222310.QAA10649@usr09.primenet.com> <19990123015811.A17699@rek.tjls.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13993.63269.64554.310942@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thor Lancelot Simon writes: > You're missing the point. SRM, too, requires "constantly playing catch-up > with new boards". The cheap new boards don't have SRM *because Compaq > wasn't willing to pay anyone to port it, or their vendors weren't > willing to license it and then pay someone to port it. > > The do-it-yourself SRM kit costs a whopping $75. In fact, it's what > MILO is (partially) based on. > What's this $75 do-it-yourself SRM kit? Does it actually include SRM sources?!? What, if any, licensing restrictions are there on distributing binaries produced from it? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message