Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:26:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912050126.RAA05619@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:16:27 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912041710190.368-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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> The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet. If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd love to hear it. They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO code for their systems. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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