Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 07:03:58 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jbarbee@singular.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of slpha port Message-ID: <199806022103.HAA21330@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <98060211384501.00278@dhcp136> from John Barbee at "Jun 2, 98 11:36:37 am"
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John Barbee wrote: > 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? I think you might be referring to the work that Jeffrey Hsu and Terry Lambert did porting NetBSD/Alpha to the AXPpci33 (a.k.a. noname). This wasn't FreeBSD - they used the NetBSD/Alpha port done by Chris Demetriou. The noname work was contributed by Jeffrey back to NetBSD and at least partly re-written by Chris AFAIK. FreeBSD/Alpha is actively being worked on. Much of the FreeBSD source tree will now build and run as FreeBSD/Alpha using FreeBSD tools. The ports, for instance, can successfully run configure scripts which identify the system as alpha-unknown-freebsd3.0 and correctly build. I'm working on the port of modula-3 to support CVSup. This requires linker mods. > > we bought an alphastation 200 and are deciding what to run on it. NetBSD will run nicely on this machine. If you might want to run FreeBSD on it eventually, then put NetBSD on it now. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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