From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 13 2:21: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A675537B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4886043E42 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0207.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.207] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Bucd-0005iL-00; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:19:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD22648.35D7B3DE@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:15:36 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wartan Hachaturow Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any TODO out there? References: <20021113085124.GA23125@mojo.tepkom.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > I did recently acquired an alpha machine (164LX), and now > looking forward in helping FreeBSD's Alpha port. > Is there any TODO list available for this port? Any things that > need to be done? There are some really hard ones; I'm sure someone else will give a different list with the easy ones on it. Here are two of the really hard ones: (1) How much RAM do you have? FreeBSD Alpha doesn't work on >2G because some drivers need to use the bus space functions to make sure all DMAs occur in the window accessible to the various busses. For an small overview: cd /usr/src/sys/alpha find . -type f | xargs fgrep 2G There are other things that could be done, as well, but this one needs someone with a system with enough RAM and who cares, to work on it. (2) If you are a real massochist, you could work on making FreeBSD work with firmware other than SRM (that's a *lot* of work, though). People occasionally complain that FreeBSD won't boot on NT-only Alpha machines. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message