Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 20:01:44 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Lord Isildur <isildur@guild.net>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912040401.UAA29782@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:58:24 -0500 (EST) Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that > nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't > trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because > they don't run BSD. ...well, the XLs are slow, too :-) They're roughly equivalent to the AlphaStation 400; there's *some* chance that a 400 SRM might run on them. (Backup your ARC image and locate the failsafe jumper first, though :-) > And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios > only & to support linux. > (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) > I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it > anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site. ...and the Ruffian board (164UX is what Samsung called it). > It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. No kidding. However, if you then start willy-nilly porting SRM to these currently non-SRM platforms, you have an interesting problem; who gives out systype numbers? -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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